Misfill
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /mɪsˈfɪl/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Misfill is a verb meaning To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement.
Meaning
To supply the wrong thing in response to an order, prescription, or requirement.
More Meanings
- To fill a receptacle incorrectly; to fill with the wrong contents, the wrong amount, or at the wrong time.
- To enter the wrong information into.
- The act of misfilling a prescription, order, or requirement.
- The act or result of misfilling a receptacle.
Example Sentences
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.
A chorus girl who dabbles in smuggling falls in with a pharmacist who is fleeing a charge of murder after he misfills a prescription.
Word Forms
- misfills
- misfilling
- misfilled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include misoccupy, misprovide, misfeed, misprescribe, misdeliver, misdispense.
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