mislay


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Synonyms for mislay

lose

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  • lose
  • misplace
  • miss
  • be unable to find
  • lose track of
  • be unable to put or lay your hand on
  • forget the whereabouts of
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for mislay

to be unable to find

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Synonyms for mislay

place (something) where one cannot find it again

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However, further studies on the prevalence of mislaid eggs, and the specific costs incurred by females that mislay their eggs (e.g., average time to renesting, lifetime reproductive success, recruitment rates of fledglings from nests that were alternately incubated) are necessary to fully evaluate the importance of this phenomenon relative to other costs of colonial breeding in swallows.
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EVEN global superstars can mislay important documents.
David Whitley, marketing manager at Stagecoach Warwick-shire, said: "It is quite fair for us to expect every customer who uses our buses to be in possession of a valid ticket, but we appreciate that people with passes do, from time to time, mislay them.
This must help in reuniting tiny tots with their careless parents, but nevertheless - how can it be that mums and dads can mislay their kids for as long as 30 minutes?
Because I am not someone who mislays things - that's Pete's job.
It mislays or damages a million bags a year - 5,000 of which never turn up, new figures have revealed.
The average pupil mislays pounds 135.76 worth of gear in a school year, according to a survey for Woolworths.