misapprehend

verb

(ˌ)mis-ˌa-pri-ˈhend How to pronounce misapprehend (audio)
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as in to misunderstand
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of unfortunately, the message that the artist was trying to convey has been misapprehended by many museum patrons

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Recent Examples of misapprehend But would her students, turned on everywhere by the dogma of political correctness, misapprehend Haynes’s aim? — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023 Some people misapprehend it and think of as imitation. — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021 But to call him a ‘man of the Right’ is to misapprehend his own words and actions. — John Hirschauer, National Review, 25 Feb. 2020

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