Misread

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Misread \Mis*read"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Misread}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Misreading}.]
     To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  misread
       v 1: read or interpret wrongly; "He misread the data"
       2: interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!" [syn: {misinterpret}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "misread":
     catachrestic, contort, distort, distorted, do amiss, eisegetical,
     garble, garbled, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, misapply,
     misapprehend, misapprehended, miscall, miscite, misconceive,
     misconceived, misconduct, misconstrue, misconstrued, miscount,
     misdeal, misdeem, misemploy, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound,
     misfield, misinterpret, misinterpreted, misjudge, mismanage,
     misplay, misprint, misquote, misrender, misreport, misspell,
     mistake, mistaken, mistranslate, misunderstand, misunderstood,
     misuse, pervert, perverted, squeeze, strain the sense, torture,
     twist the words, wrench