misstage verb3 •To stage improperly.The lower end of each movable sleeve incorporates a flow control orifice plate to prevent rapid misstaging due to improper packing adjustment. — 1979 •To stage (a performance) badly.Out Cry is an example of why you feel your later plays are misstaged. — 1986 •To assess incorrectly as belonging to a different stage than is actually the caseTo do the work chapter, reproducible staging of chick embryos is required. When misstaging it will be impossible to repeat a given experiment. — 2008 formsmisstaged · misstaging · misstages