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misread

verb

Reveal meaning and examples

To read something incorrectly or form a mistaken understanding of a situation.

She did not want to misread his silence as agreement.

Dictionary practice example.

An early reader began to misread a map arrow as the fugitive's route, although it actually marked the route of a separate delivery wagon.