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mislead

verb
/mɪsˈliːd/

Etymology

From Middle English mysleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”). By surface analysis, mis- + lead.

  1. inherited from *missalaidijaną✻ — “to mislead”
  2. inherited from mislǣdan — “to mislead”
  3. inherited from mysleden

Definitions

  1. To lead astray, in a false direction.

    • City of the dead / At the end of another lost highway / Signs misleading to nowhere

  2. To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.

  3. To deceptively trick into something wrong.

    • The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To accidentally or intentionally confuse.

    2. A wrong or bad lead

      A wrong or bad lead; a leading in the wrong direction.

      • If all the misleads (incorrect alternatives) are illogical, absurd, or in any way unattractive as possible answers, the student has no difficulty in choosing the correct answer.

    3. That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse).

      • The skinny body, a mislead to make people think that he was captured by someone and tortured. Even the loud gunshot was a mislead to make them ask questions to common citizens. His long untidy hair, also a mislead.

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Derived

misleadable, misleader, misleading

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at mislead. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at mislead. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at mislead

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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