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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

extraviar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ekstɾaˈβjaɾ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Misplace/mɪsˈpleɪs/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #6500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Parece que he extraviado mi cartera."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To put something in the wrong place and lose track of it temporarily.

    "She realized she had misplaced her car keys somewhere in the office."
  2. 2

    To bestow or direct trust, affection, or confidence inappropriately or unwisely.

    "He felt he had misplaced his trust in a colleague who betrayed his confidence."
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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix mis- (denoting wrongly or badly, from Old English and Old Norse roots) combined with the verb place, which stems from Old French 'placier' and Late Latin 'platea'. The term emerged in the late 16th century to describe the act of putting something in the wrong location or failing to keep track of an item.

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