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to misunderstand
01
to fail to understand something or someone correctly
Transitive: to misunderstand sth
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
misunderstand
3rd person singular
misunderstands
Present participle
misunderstanding
Past simple
misunderstood
Past participle
misunderstood
Examples
He misunderstood the meeting time and arrived an hour early.
Lexical Tree
misunderstand
understand
