missend

[mis-send]

verb (used with object)

missent, missending 

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of missend¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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