misapprehend

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to understand or interpret something incorrectly

   Do not misapprehend her silence as agreement.

Formed from mis- ("wrongly") + apprehend. Apprehend comes through French and Latin from apprehendere ("to seize, grasp"); misapprehend therefore means to grasp an idea wrongly.

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