Misfill

/mɪsˈfɪl/ · verb

Meaning

To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement..

Definitions by Sense

1. To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement.
2. To fill a receptacle incorrectly; to fill with the wrong contents, the wrong amount, or at the wrong time.
3. To enter the wrong information into.
4. The act of misfilling a prescription, order, or requirement.
5. 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.

The filling up of forms is not regarded as an especially amusing occupation, but the people who have to read the forms that you misfill when you insure your life get some fun to know the cause of death of your father and mother or if they are living.

The other point was on this question of accommodation of the Serjeant at Arms, which you rather suggested he gave up out of charity after it had been misfilled by the lobby correspondents?

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• misfills
• misfilling
• misfilled

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