Definition of misapprehend
: to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand
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unfortunately, the message that the artist was trying to convey has been misapprehended by many museum patrons
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This isn’t just shooting your mouth off on the stump—this is the nation’s top lawyer completely misapprehending what judges do and what states are.
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Yet by the same logic, giving Washington and Jefferson a pass for being slaveholders misapprehends a moral problem embedded in our nation at its conception.
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This is a silly parlor game that misapprehends James’s gifts, which have never been those of a pure scorer.
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First Known Use of misapprehend
1628
misapprehend Synonyms
Synonyms
misconstrue, misinterpret, misperceive, misread, miss, mistake, misunderstand;
Antonyms
appreciate, apprehend, catch, comprehend, conceive, fathom, get, grasp, know, make out, penetrate, perceive, see, seize, take in, understand;
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