misread
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Misread it, and the draft would punt you to the rear.
From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2011
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From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2010
Misread, mis-rēd′, v.t. to read wrongly: to misinterpret.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
War sure hath ceased; or have my erring eyes Misread the glorious visions of the skies?
From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel
The accompanying Sermons on "Misread Passages of Scripture" form part of a series which the author projected, but which through ill health he has been unable to complete.
From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing misread
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: mis-
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