misread

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++mis·read /ˌmɪsˈriːd/ verb (past tense and past participle misread /-ˈred/) [transitive]  1  UNDERSTAND#to make a wrong judgment about a person or situation 对…判断错误 SYN misinterpret I think she misread the situation. 我想她是错误地估计了形势。 He may be misreading her intentions. 他也许误解了她的意图。2  READto read something incorrectly 读错，念错，看错 The doctor must have misread the notes. 医生一定是看错了记录。 —misreading noun [countable, uncountable] a misreading of the situation 对局势的错误判断→ See Verb table

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misread• Hobert misread a coverage, thought he was looking at a blitz and threw a killer interception.• More, he had hinted, unless I had misread him, at a connection with the family.• Jody misreads his caution for negativity and is mystified by his attitude.• The intelligence community was criticized for misreading Iraq's intentions.• She was beginning to wonder if she'd misread it - got the time all wrong.• Auditory processing challenges further contributed to his sense of confusion and, at times, to misreading of situations.• It was found that tests had been systematically misread since 1987.• We misread the level of interest in the campaign.• Unfortunately, we misread the situation and lost a lot of sales.• I believe Taylor is misreading the situation yet again by delaying his comeback.

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misread
mis‧read /ˌmɪsˈriːd/ verb (past tense and past participle misread /-ˈred/) [transitive]
1. to make a wrong judgment about a person or situation
   SYN  misinterpret:
    I think she misread the situation.
    He may be misreading her intentions.
2. to read something incorrectly:
    The doctor must have misread the notes.
—misreading noun [uncountable and countable]:
    a misreading of the situation
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ misunderstand to think that someone means one thing, when in fact they mean something else: I think you've misunderstood what I'm saying. | Some companies appear to have misunderstood the new rules. | Don't misunderstand me - I have nothing against these people.
   ▪ get somebody/something wrong especially spoken to misunderstand someone or something - used especially in everyday spoken English: Looks like you've got it all wrong. | You've got me all wrong - that's not what I meant. | Tell me if I've got it wrong.
   ▪ mistake to misunderstand someone's intentions, and react in the wrong way: He was a very private man, and some people mistook this for unfriendliness. | I thought she wanted us to leave her alone, but I may been mistaken.
   ▪ misread/misjudge to wrongly believe that someone’s actions show that they have a particular opinion or feeling, or that a situation means that you should behave in particular way: The party completely misread the mood of the voters at the last election. | Eddie wondered if he should be scared, too. Maybe he had misjudged the situation.
   ▪ misinterpret to not understand the true meaning of someone’s actions or words, so that you believe something that is not in fact true: A lot of people misinterpreted what I was saying, and have called me a racist. | Struggling with an unfamiliar language, the simplest conversations were misinterpreted.
   ▪ misconstrue formal to misunderstand something that someone has said or done: She claimed that members of the press had misconstrued her comments.
   ▪ miss the point to not understand the main part or meaning of what someone is saying or what something is intended to do: I think you're missing the whole point of the film. | If he thinks it's all about how much profit he can make, then he's missing the point.
   ▪ get the wrong end of the stick British English informal to make a mistake about one part of something that you are told, so that you understand the rest of it in completely the wrong way: Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick. I thought she was leaving him, not the other way round.

mis·readBrE /ˌmɪsˈriːd/ 🔊NAmE /ˌmɪsˈriːd/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they misread BrE /ˌmɪsˈriːd/ 🔊 NAmE /ˌmɪsˈriːd/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it misreads BrE /ˌmɪsˈriːdz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˌmɪsˈriːdz/ 🔊past simple misread BrE /ˌmɪsˈred/ 🔊 NAmE /ˌmɪsˈred/ 🔊past participle misread BrE /ˌmɪsˈred/ 🔊 NAmE /ˌmɪsˈred/ 🔊 -ing form misreading BrE /ˌmɪsˈriːdɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˌmɪsˈriːdɪŋ/ 🔊to understand sb/sth wrongly 误解 SYN misinterpret ◆~ sth I'm afraid I completely misread the situation. 恐怕我完全看错了形势。🔊🔊◆~ sth as sth His confidence was misread as arrogance. 他的自信被误解为傲慢。🔊🔊~ sth (as sth) to read sth wrongly 读错；误读◆I misread the 1 as a 7. 我把 1 错当成 7 了。🔊🔊