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# mislead

«mislead» in Mova's school dictionary: **not true, by telling them wrong or unclear things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (mislead, misleads, misled, misleading)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make someone believe something that is not true, by telling them wrong or unclear things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#m1)

2) To lead someone in the wrong direction or into doing something wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In media and online safety lessons: adverts and fake news can mislead people. In maths: a graph with a strange scale can mislead the reader. Phrases: misleading information, misleading graph, mislead someone into.

### examples

- The advert misled people into thinking the toy could fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x1)
- Don't mislead your friends with made-up stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x2)
- The sign misled us, and we took the wrong road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x3)
- A graph that does not start at zero can mislead you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x4)
- He misled the teacher about his homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x5)
- Fake news is written to mislead people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x6)

### note

Irregular: past mislead → misled (not "misleaded"). Adjective: misleading. Said "mis-LEED"; past "mis-LED". Do not read "misled" as "MY-zld". In maths, check axes and scales so a chart cannot mislead you.

### In the corpora

- [Some philosophers say tricky true words are better than a lie; others say any attempt to mislead is the same wrong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/84-kind-truths-honesty-with-a-gentle-voice/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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