mislead
verb (mislead, misleads, misled, misleading)
Everyday
- To make someone believe something that is not true, by telling them wrong or unclear things. tree →
- To lead someone in the wrong direction or into doing something wrong. tree →
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 →
- Don't mislead your friends with made-up stories. tree →
- The sign misled us, and we took the wrong road. tree →
- A graph that does not start at zero can mislead you. tree →
- He misled the teacher about his homework. tree →
- Fake news is written to mislead people. tree →
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.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «mislead» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «mislead» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mislead/