- 1to understand someone or something wrongly synonym misinterpret misread something I'm afraid I completely misread the situation. misread something as something His confidence was misread as arrogance.
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- 2misread something (as something) to read something wrongly I misread the 1 as a 7. You must have misread the address.
misread
verbNAmE//ˌmɪsˈrid//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they misread he / she / it misreads
past simple misread
-ing form misreading
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