misread
/mɪsˈriːd
/verb (past and past participle misread /mɪsˈrɛd/) [with object]
1Read (a piece of text) wrongly: perhaps she’d misread the note and got the time wrong (as noun misreading) he withdrew an allegation based on his misreading of a newspaper article...
- The writer of the piece seemed to have misread Otto's article, but he gave my wonderful son a nice plug, and I appreciate that.
- Any reading which fails to take this into account misreads the text.
- They simply did not represent Islam, and had misread its sacred text.
1.1Judge or interpret (a situation or a person’s manner or behaviour) incorrectly: had she been completely misreading his intentions?...
- This was a serious mistake by the umpires at the town end and they completely misread the situation.
- I could have misread the situation completely but he actually seemed quite pleased to have us there.
- He had completely misread the situation, but I couldn't blame him and I didn't set him straight.
