mislead
/mɪsˈliːd/ verb B1- To lead astray, in a false direction.
- To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
- To deceptively trick into something wrong.
- To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
He/she/it misleads · Past misled · Past participle misled · -ing form misleading
Verb forms
- Base form
- mislead
- He/she/it
- misleads
- Past
- misled
- Past participle
- misled
- -ing form
- misleading
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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but, like a phosphoric light, they rise but to mislead.
No doubt he had fallen into bad hands and been misled to his ruin.
My brother admires her greatly already; he will have frequent opportunity now of seeing her on the most intimate footing; her relations all wish the connection as much as his own; and a sister’s partiality is not misleading me, I think, when I call Charles most capable of engaging any woman’s heart.
Collins,” said she, “speaks highly both of Lady Catherine and her daughter; but, from some particulars that he has related of her Ladyship, I suspect his gratitude misleads him; and that, in spite of her being his patroness, she is an arrogant, conceited woman.”
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