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# mislaid

«mislaid» in Mova's school dictionary: **put something somewhere and then could not find it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb past form of mislay (mislay, mislays, mislaid, mislaying); adjective (mislaid)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mislaid means put something somewhere and then could not find it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislaid/#m1)

2) (adjective) Mislaid describes something lost for a while because it was put in the wrong place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislaid/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life people mislay keys, glasses and homework. It is a gentler word than «lost»: you hope to find it again. In stories «I seem to have mislaid my hat» sounds polite or old-fashioned.

### examples

- I've mislaid my reading glasses again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislaid/#x1)
- She mislaid her homework and found it under the bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislaid/#x2)
- Dad mislaid the car keys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislaid/#x3)
- The mislaid letter turned up a week later. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislaid/#x4)
- (formal) It appears your form has been mislaid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislaid/#x5)
- Grandpa mislaid his phone in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislaid/#x6)

### note

Irregular: mislay, mislaid, mislaid. Do not confuse with «misled» (gave the wrong idea). Mislaid = put in the wrong place; lost = cannot find at all.

### In the corpora

- ["Lost" in "she lost her husband" means her husband died; nothing was mislaid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mislaid» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislaid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.