verb
- to put something in a place and then forget where you put it; to lose something temporarily
Usage: transitive verb
Examples
- I seem to have mislaid my car keys again.
- She mislaid the important document somewhere in her office.
- Don’t mislay your passport while traveling abroad.
- He frequently mislays his reading glasses.
- The teacher mislaid the test papers and had to search for them.
- I mislaid my phone and spent an hour looking for it.