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misapprehend

verb
/mɪsapɹɪˈhɛnd/UK

Etymology

From mis- + apprehend.

  1. derived from *gʰed-✻ — “to hold, seize, take; to find”
  2. derived from apprehendere
  3. derived from apprehender
  4. inherited from apprehenden — “to grasp, take hold of; to comprehend; to learn”
  5. formed as misapprehend — “mis- + apprehend”

Definitions

  1. To interpret incorrectly

    To interpret incorrectly; to misunderstand.

    • I define white as a social category, not a racial category. Of course, it carries unmistakable racial meanings, but as I have argued in this book, to see it as racial and nothing more is to misapprehend it.
    • They misapprehended the intentions and capabilities of our enemies, miscalculated the strength of communism, and misjudged the threat of terrorism.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA