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Word Meanings - MISASSIGN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To assign wrongly.

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  • MISASSIGN
    To assign wrongly.
  • MISUSE
    1. To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents. South. The sweet poison of misused wine. Milton. 2. To abuse; to treat ill. O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. Shak. Syn.
  • PURLOINER
    One who purloins. Swift.
  • MISUSER
    Unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right. Bouvier. (more info) 1. One who misuses. "Wretched misusers of language." Coleridge.
  • ABUSE
    1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle shoots rapidly
  • MISUSEMENT
    Misuse.
  • ABUSER
    One who abuses .
  • PURLOIN
    To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden. (more info) pur, por, pour, for + loin
  • MISAPPROPRIATE
    To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
  • ABUSEFUL
    Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.
  • SELF-ABUSE
    1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.
  • DISABUSE
    To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right. To undeceive and disabuse the people. South. If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition,

 

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