misread
Collocations
2(verb.)
ADV
completely, totally
She totally misread the situation and thought he was angry when he was just tired.
PREP
as
He misread the email as spam and accidentally deleted an important message from his boss.
Definitions
verb
To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
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.
Now I'm in / over my head, with something I said. / Completely misread I'm better off dead.
noun
An instance of reading wrongly.
Line fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.
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.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
verb — interpret wrongly
- misinterpret
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6In 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 th
WiktionaryNow I'm in / over my head, with something I said. / Completely misread I'm better off dead.
WiktionaryYet her obsession with remaining inscrutable has the curious effect of making her also unable to read others—for example, she misses entirely the subversive humor of the black garage mechanic, Jimmy,
WiktionaryLine fluctuations can cause misreads and miswrites.
WiktionaryTo 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
WiktionaryI misread.
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