misapply
/ˌmɪsəˈplaɪ/
misapply verb: to apply incorrectly; to misuse.
Verb
misapply (third-person singular simple present misapplies, present participle misapplying, simple past and past participle misapplied)
- To apply incorrectly; to misuse.
- It may be that the jury in this case have misapplied the rule laid down by this Court, but not in favour of the defendants. I cannot help thinking they might well have held the watercourse to be the true boundary line between the two properties.1913, Sir Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, The Revised Reports
misapply meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
misapply in Tamil
- தவறாகப் பயன்படுத்து
misapply in Urdu
- بیجا تصرف کرنا, غلط استعمال کرنا
misapply in Bengali
- ভুলভাবে প্রয়োগ করা, অপব্যবহার করা
misapply in Malayalam
- misemploy, misuse, mishandle
- ദുർവ്വിനിയോഗിക്കുക, ദുരുപയോഗം ചെയ്യുക, തെറ്റായി പ്രയോഗിക്കുക, ദുരുപയോഗിക്കുക, ദുരുപയോഗപ്പെടുത്തുക, തെറ്റായി കെെകാര്യം ചെയ്യുക
Forms of misapply
| third-person singular present | misapplies |
|---|---|
| present participle | misapplying |
| past participle | misapplied |
| past | misapplied |
Origin of misapply
From mis- + apply.
Words that rhyme with misapply
Questions about misapply
- What does misapply mean?
- Misapply means to apply incorrectly; to misuse.
- What is misapply in Tamil?
- Misapply in Tamil is தவறாகப் பயன்படுத்து. See Misapply meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is misapply?
- Misapply is a verb.
- How do you pronounce misapply?
- Misapply is pronounced /ˌmɪsəˈplaɪ/.
- What is the past tense of misapply?
- The past tense of misapply is misapplied.
Words near misapply in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: misapply (page history and authors); misapply (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misapply (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misapply (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misapply (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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