misstore

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ store

Verb

misstore (third-person singular simple present misstores, present participle misstoring, simple past and past participle misstored)

1. To store improperly.
   • 1972, Bernard J. Somers, Re-evaluation Therapy: Theoretical Framework, page 5:

     The brain seems to misstore the information recorded during the event along with the negative emotion itself.

   • 1988, COMPASS: Computer Assurance, page 72:

     The system probably began to misstore data when the number of issues exceeded 32,767, or 2¹⁵- 1.

   • 2008, Michael Jecks, The Prophecy of Death:

     The Bishop of Orange was watching carefully as men stored his papers in a cart, the King's steward and Despenser's bottler were stalking about among the wagons and sumpter horses ensuring that all was packed, while clerks of the various departments of state were hurrying about, squeaking at men who looked as though they might drop a chest or misstore a box in the wrong wagon, and generally getting in the way of everyone else while making themselves thoroughly miserable at the same time.

   • 2015, Gary D. Cumberland, My Life with Death: Memoirs of a Journeyman Medical Examiner:

     Most of these deaths were caused by handguns kept in the home for protection and were simply misstored and thus easily accessible to the children, usually between the ages of eight and twelve.