From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmisreadmis‧read /ˌmɪsˈriːd/ verb (past tense and past participle misread /-ˈred/) [transitive] 1 UNDERSTAND#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 READto read something incorrectly The doctor must have misread the notes. —misreading noun [countable, uncountable] a misreading of the situation→ 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. 