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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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“Misapprehend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misapprehend. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.

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