Misread

Quick meaning: Misread is a verb meaning To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. An instance of reading wrongly.

Example Sentences

Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.

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

To bait the mark, the veteran grifter initially covers one of the three numbers on the clothespin or miscounts the marble tally which serves to award the mark fairbanked points. The grateful mark will not question the grifter's tricky misread or miscount.

In the circumstances the Inspecting Officer concludes that the electric train motorman, despite his assertions to the contrary, misread the up main relief inner home signal for his own and ran past the up main through inner home signal at danger; he must therefore be held responsible for the accident.

Word Forms

• misreads
• misreading

Synonyms for misread

Depending on context, synonyms include misinterpret.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misinterpret, misconstrue, misunderstand, mismean, misconstruct, misconster.

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