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misplacement
noun as in loss
Strong matches
- accident
- bereavement
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- cost
- damage
- death
- debit
- debt
- defeat
- deficiency
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- destruction
- detriment
- disadvantage
- disappearance
- disaster
- dispossession
- failure
- fall
- fatality
- forfeiture
- harm
- hurt
- impairment
- injury
- misadventure
- mishap
- need
- perdition
- privation
- retardation
- ruin
- sacrifice
- shrinkage
- squandering
- trial
- trouble
- undoing
- want
- waste
- wreckage
Weak matches
Example Sentences
"We cannot say with certainty that all of these items are on the library's estate," said a spokesman but "the reason is usually misplacement".
Senior Coroner Andrew Harris said he would not have died when he did "were it not for the tube misplacement".
Biden has insisted that the misplacement of papers from his time as vice president was a mistake he knew little about.
Due to the misplacement, one was never switched on and the other probe had to be switched off as he suffered slurred speech and other side effects.
Readers of all races, creeds, sexual orientations and genders will recognize Owen’s feelings of misplacement — but queer readers perhaps will find something more.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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