misconceive
verb
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Definition of misconceive
1 transitive : to form a wrong idea of (something) : misunderstand To think about poverty as mainly an underclass or minority issue is not only to misconceive it, but also to wall it off and make it alien. —Mark Jonathan Harris … I thought I had misconceived their true characters … —Herman Melville
2 intransitive dated : to hold a wrong idea or conception
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