Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To apprehend incorrectly; misunderstand.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To apprehend incorrectly or wrongly; misunderstand; take in a wrong sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
interpret incorrectly ; tomisunderstand .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb interpret in the wrong way
Etymologies
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Examples
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Did I misapprehend them as discounting, if not dismissing, the significance of this terrorist attack?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing 2010
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I would venture to guess that attributing what a character says in a fictional work to the actual voice of one of the writers is the quickest way to misapprehend the work.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Imitation of Life: Treme Fact Versus Fiction Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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John T. Kennedy seems to misapprehend "consequentialist libertarian" -- at least as I use it and see it used.
Of Markets and Ideas, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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May 4, 2010, 11: 43 pm neurodoc says: neurodoc: Did I misapprehend them as discounting, if not dismissing, the significance of this terrorist attack?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing 2010
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I would venture to guess that attributing what a character says in a fictional work to the actual voice of one of the writers is the quickest way to misapprehend the work.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Imitation of Life: Treme Fact Versus Fiction Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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I would venture to guess that attributing what a character says in a fictional work to the actual voice of one of the writers is the quickest way to misapprehend the work.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Imitation of Life: Treme Fact Versus Fiction Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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I am not being a wiseguy but please tell me where I misapprehend the implications of federal tort reform.
‘Public option’ on the table? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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I would venture to guess that attributing what a character says in a fictional work to the actual voice of one of the writers is the quickest way to misapprehend the work.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Imitation of Life: Treme Fact Versus Fiction Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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Anonsters says: neurodoc: Did I misapprehend them as discounting, if not dismissing, the significance of this terrorist attack?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing 2010
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Thus, do not misapprehend the Hinayana paths as being solely an obstacle to enlightenment, because the Saddharmapundarika sutra and other texts teach that they are methods for achieving Buddhahood.
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