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Definition of misplacing : of Misplace

Synonyms:

disorganizing, convulsing, discomposing, disarranging, tampering, muddling, scattering, deranging, hashing, displacing, jumbling, swirling, whisking, tossing, ruffling, dislocating, messing, confusing, troubling, roiling, disturbing, roughening, churning, rummaging, mixing up, meddling, disheveling, botching, capsizing, mislaying, confounding, agitating, tumbling, cluttering, upsetting, scrambling, rumpling, rippling, fermenting, perturbing, whipping, disordering, tousling, blurring, mussing

dropping, eroding, debiting, decrementing, dissolving, decreasing, divesting, dissipating, depleting, forfeiting, dispossessing, losing, shrinking, exhausting

Usage examples:

• But I do mean, that should man or woman be capable of cure under sufferings originating in misplaced confidence, such cure is most readily effected by a modified attack of the same nature, at the risk of misplacing it again. - "M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."", G.J. Whyte-Melville.
• On going to bed the very, stairs seemed to dance up and down under me, so that, misplacing my foot, I sometimes fell. - "The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)", Thomas Clarkson.
• The a, indeed, may be close or short, while the o, having its primal or name sound, is called long; but the first syllable, if fully accented, will have twice the time of the second; nor can this proportion be reversed but by changing the accent, and misplacing it on the latter syllable. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.