misfill
/mɪsˈfɪl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement.
verb
To fill a receptacle incorrectly; to fill with the wrong contents, the wrong amount, or at the wrong time.
verb
To enter the wrong information into.
noun
The act of misfilling a prescription, order, or requirement.
noun
The act or result of misfilling a receptacle.
Example Sentences
- "A chorus girl who dabbles in smuggling falls in with a pharmacist who is fleeing a charge of murder after he misfills a prescription."
- "Mr. Miller, a man who once fixed dents in the fuselages of jets and felt pride in his craft whenever a plane soared overhead, darts between the counter and the food pickup shelf, back and forth, a hundred times a day, careful not to misfill an order."
- "Neither the Plaintiff nor Margarita's mother was aware that the prescription had been misfilled or that the misfill was failing to inhibit the blockage of her airway."
- "As indeed it was, since Newell herself corrected all of the envelopes which Rushford had misfilled."
- "Vaporizers not equipped with keyed fillers have been occasionally misfilled with the wrong anesthetic liquid."
- "It depletes or demoralizes so many prayer-meetings, chills or misfills so many pulpits, and makes so many unworshipping choirs."