missend

American  

[mis-send] / mɪsˈsɛnd /

verb (used with object)

missent, missending

1. to send or forward, especially mail, to a wrong place or person.

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Etymology

Origin of missend

First recorded in 1400–50, missend is from the late Middle English word missenden. See mis- ¹, send ¹

Example Sentences

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missent

That person was probably trying to overcompensate for the attitudes you saw in the missent email and to make you feel welcome.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2021

I was certain that no one knew that it had been missent.

From The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton

Again "someone had blundered," and his invitation had been missent.

From In the Days of Queen Victoria by Eva March Tappan

Mademoiselle throws down the bow with a little gesture of despair, and I hasten toward the trellis intent upon recapturing the missent arrow.

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch

It will permit the employment of the telegraph in tracing a missent letter or package, rectifying an erroneous address, discovering the whereabouts of an absentee, etc.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various