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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

to consider, explain, or understand something or someone incorrectly;

e.g. I don't want to misinterpret your words, so please clarify what you mean.

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Similar Words

Bend

Color

Cook

Distort

Falsify

Fudge

Garble

Misapprehend

Misconstrue

Miscount

Miscue

Misesteem

Mishear

Misperceive

Misread

Misrelate

Misrepresent

Miss

Misspeak

Misstate

Mistake

Misunderstand

Pervert

Slant

Twist

Warp

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Opposite Words

Appreciate

Apprehend

Assimilate

Behold

Catch

Clarify

Compass

Comprehend

Conceive

Cotton

Decipher

Decode

Dig

Discern

Explain

Fathom

Get

Grasp

Grok

Illuminate

Illustrate

Interpret

Intuit

Know

Make

Onto

Or

Penetrate

Perceive

Recognize

Register

See

Seize

Sense

Toto

Twig

Understand

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Related Words

Belie

Blunder

Boob

Bowdlerize

Camouflage

Censor

Cheat

Chicane

Complicate

Confound

Confuse

Disguise

Dissemble

Equivocate

Err

Fib

Finagle

Flub

Fluff

Foul-up

Fudge

Fumble

Lie

Mask

Miscalculate

Misconceive

Misdeem

Misdescribe

Misgauge

Mishear

Misjudge

Misspeak

Mistake

Mistranslate

Mystify

Obscure

Palter

Prevaricate

Screwup

Slipup

Stumble

Trip

Veil

Whitewash

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Phrases

• get the wrong end of the stick

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