Word Meanings - MISASSIGN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To assign wrongly.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISASSIGN)

• Misappropriate
• Misassign
• purloin
• misdistribute
• abuse
• misuse

Related words: (words related to MISASSIGN)

• 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,