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

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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

Annie was deeply wounded, though she tried to believe that he had written and that the letter had been missent or lost.

From Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

How to dispose of dead letters and how to get back into their proper channel letters that had been missent were questions which not seldom perplexed even Allen himself.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce

The ship tore on; leaving such a furrow in the sea as when a cannon-ball, missent, becomes a ploughshare and turns up the level field.

From Great Sea Stories by Joseph Lewis French

Gentlemen,—The Examiner reached me to-day; it had been missent on account of the direction, which was to Currer Bell, care of Miss Bronte.

From Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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