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# misinterpret

«misinterpret» in Mova's school dictionary: **to understand someone's words or actions in the wrong way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (misinterprets, misinterpreted, misinterpreting)

### meaning for a pupil

To misinterpret is to understand someone's words or actions in the wrong way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misinterpret/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a character who gets another's meaning wrong, which leads to trouble in the story

### examples

- Do not misinterpret my silence; I was only thinking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misinterpret/#x1)
- The cat misinterpreted the dog's wag as a threat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misinterpret/#x2)
- He misinterpreted the instructions and built the tent upside down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misinterpret/#x3)
- She misinterpreted the question and added instead of subtracting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misinterpret/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «misinterpret» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misinterpret/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.