Misdecipher

Quick meaning: Misdecipher is a verb meaning To decipher incorrectly.

Meaning

To decipher incorrectly.

Example Sentences

I don't know how people misdecipher the loving beats of a heart

Spinden completely misdeciphers this I. S. He gives two variant readings, both based upon incorrect decipherments of the terminal date, as follows:

The supplementary puzzles, like the half-burned note whose message we decipher (or misdecipher) in Death in Ecstasy, do not further the main investigation, and can send us down a blind alley or after a red herring.

Then a number of these mistakes are corrected and lines necessary for sense recovered by modern editors from the previous editions themselves, which effectually shows that the plays were transcribed, and that these mistakes were largely made from misdeciphering the manuscript, as no printer, however bad, could possibly have made them if he had print to copy from.

Word Forms

• misdeciphers
• misdeciphering
• misdeciphered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misread, misdiscern, misdecide, misinterpret, misdetermine, misdecode.

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