misfills

Verb

misfill (third-person singular simple present misfills, present participle misfilling, simple past and past participle misfilled)

1. To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement.
   • A chorus girl who dabbles in smuggling falls in with a pharmacist who is fleeing a charge of murder after he misfills a prescription.1992, Gerald Martin Bordman, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle, page 256256
2. To fill a receptacle incorrectly; to fill with the wrong contents, the wrong amount, or at the wrong time.
   • As indeed it was, since Newell herself corrected all of the envelopes which Rushford had misfilled.1953, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1217
3. To enter the wrong information into.
   • The filling up of forms is not regarded as an especially amusing occupation, but the people who have to read the forms that you misfill when you insure your life get some fun to know the cause of death of your father and mother or if they are living.1922, Listen to These, page 230

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