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misaddress

vb. (cx transitive English) To address (a letter, etc.) incorrectly.

WordNet
misaddress

v. put a wrong address on; "misdirect the letter" [syn: misdirect]

Usage examples of "misaddress".

This is a piece of a sci-fi story that got misaddressed in cyberspace.

I asked everyone present to help open the wrappings, so that, if the contents did prove to have been misaddressed, the workers could help repack them for return.

He just got some nice little extras all in things he and his family could enjoy but we wouldn't particularly notice, and for that he got a message slip passed into his pocket now and then that a shipment-he didn't even know what it was, nor cared-would be with so-and-so as unlisted or misaddressed cargo.

But strange things were beginning to fizz in its brain, as they did from time to time when a piece of data became misaddressed as it passed through its input buffer.