misaddress

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ address

Verb

misaddress (third-person singular simple present misaddresses, present participle misaddressing, simple past and past participle misaddressed)

  1. (transitive) To address (a letter, etc.) incorrectly.
    • 1970, Queen's Quarterly, volume 77, page 35:
      She had written it to him before she died, but had misaddressed it — and hence the postal delay.
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