Word family noun place placement placing displacement replacement adjective displaced misplaced replaceable verb place displace misplace replace
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmisplacemis‧place /ˌmɪsˈpleɪs/ verb [transitive] LOSE/CAN'T FINDto lose something for a short time by putting it in the wrong place SYN mislay Oh dear, I seem to have misplaced the letter.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
misplace• The papers arrived but were misplaced in the mailroom.• The priceless tapestry was unharmed, nothing was taken off the altar, nothing was moved or misplaced that he could see. 