Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To send amiss or incorrectly: as, to
missend a letter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To send amiss or incorrectly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
send incorrectly or to the wrongdestination .
Etymologies
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mis- + send
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Examples
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Possibly, if you do answer it, and direct it to Herman Melville, you will missend it -- for the very fingers that now guide this pen are not precisely the same that just took it up and put it on this paper.
Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888
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