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Definition of Misread
1. Verb. Read or interpret wrongly. "He misread the data"
2. Verb. Interpret wrongly. "Sam and Sue misread the movie "; "I misread Hamlet all my life!"
Generic synonyms: Read, Take
Derivative terms: Misinterpretation, Misreading
Definition of Misread
1. v. t. To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.
Definition of Misread
1. Verb. To read wrongly, normally by accident. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misread
1. to read incorrectly [v -READ, -READING, -READS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misread
Literary usage of Misread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"^-^v*^-' it was misread to him, for when the evidence proves either of Gi'fb°LS™i«a
t'iese 'acts' l'ie deed is void, and it is not his deed : and ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... of London, wbi misread the word, and as they «en made on the banks of the
Tweed, ил name was appropriated and according'.? adopted. ..."
3. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"The editor, as was not unfrequently the case, left too much to the printer, and
the printer misread the perhaps careless transcript with which he was ..."
4. The Clouded Lens: Persian Gulf Security and U.S. Policy by James H. Noyes (1982)
"British Rule misread Many observers were also misled both by their conception of
the actual British military presence that departed in late 1971 and by ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... from an ancient Roman bath ; (2) a stone, with an unintelligible but ingeniously
misread inscription, popularly supposed to be a tombstone of the ..."
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