Definition of Misapprehend

1. Verb. Interpret in the wrong way. "Sam and Sue Misapprehend the movie "; "She misconstrued my remarks"


Definition of Misapprehend

1. v. t. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.

Definition of Misapprehend

1. Verb. (transitive) To interpret incorrectly; to misunderstand. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Misapprehend

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misapprehend

misanthropies
misanthropist
misanthropists
misanthropy
misapplication
misapplications
misapplied
misapplies
misapply
misapplying
misappraisal
misappraisals
misappreciated
misappreciation
misappreciations
misapprehend
misapprehended
misapprehending
misapprehends
misapprehension
misapprehensions
misapprehensive
misapprehensively
misappropriate
misappropriated
misappropriates
misappropriating
misappropriation
misappropriations
misarrange

Literary usage of Misapprehend

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law-breaker and the Coming of the Law by James Hinton (1884)
"And so we, with our self-regarding reticence, misapprehend Him, and think that He must have meant to claim some superhuman place and to fix mankind about ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1819)
"You misapprehend him; he said, he believed it was for a piston of an air gun, that taken together with ¡riding the tube, it was satisfactory to him that it ..."

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