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

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

From The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton

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

And sometimes it's been in-between, and you've managed to foul up whole organizations with misplaced papers missent messages, error, and changed minds and everything else you can think of.

From Supermind by Laurence M. Janifer

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

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville

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