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misread

verb
/mɪsˈɹiːd//ˈmɪs.ɹiːd/

Etymology

From Middle English misreden, from Old English misrǣdan (“to advise wrongly; read wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + read. Cognate with Saterland Frisian misräide (“to go wrong, fail”), Dutch misraden (“to guess wrongly”), German missraten (“to fail; go wrong; become wayward”). For the noun, compare Old English misrǣd (“misguidance; misconduct”).

  1. inherited from misrǣdan — “to advise wrongly; read wrongly”
  2. inherited from misreden

Definitions

  1. To read wrongly

    To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.

    • Now I'm in / over my head, with something I said. / Completely misread I'm better off dead.

  2. An instance of reading wrongly.

    • Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misread. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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