Synonyms for misread
mɪsˈrid; -ˈrɛdmis·read

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1. misreadverb

   read or interpret wrongly

   "He misread the data"

   Synonyms:
   misinterpret

2. misread, misinterpretverb

   interpret wrongly

   "I misread Hamlet all my life!"

   Synonyms:
   misunderstand, misapprehend, misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, be amiss

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1. List of paraphrases for "misread":

   misinterpret, misconstrue

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How to use misread in a sentence?

1. Mmusi Maimane:

   The most historic thing about this election is people rejected the racial divisions and said its possible for black and white South Africans to work together, in 1994, the choice was between freedom or apartheid. The ANC has always sought since then to make the choice about black or white. The ANC misread South Africa.

2. A. A. Attanasio:

   Silence is a text easy to misread.

3. Shaun McGrath:

   When the event happened on Wednesday, the people on the ground misinterpreted, misread the severity of the impact, we misjudged, and this is something that I'm owning up to.

4. Lissa Muscatine:

   We were fairly confident that the speech was good, even though we had to walk a diplomatic minefield, but for an eternity, there was absolutely no response from the audience, they looked like statues and we got really panicked, and we thought 'My God, what if we misread this?'.

5. Tiger Woods:

   I rolled it well today, hit a lot of good putts early that didn't go in, i misread a couple on the back nine. Overall I hit a lot of good putts and it was nice to feel that and nice to feel the putter swinging again.