Usually means: Incorrectly interprets or understands something.
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  1. misconstrues: Merriam-Webster
  2. misconstrues: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. misconstrues: Collins English Dictionary
  4. misconstrues: Vocabulary.com
  5. misconstrues: Wordnik
  6. misconstrues: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. misconstrues: Wiktionary
  8. misconstrues: Dictionary.com
  9. misconstrues: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. misconstrues: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misconstrues: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (misconstrue)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.
▸ Also see misconstrue


Opposite:
understands, comprehends

Types:
distorts, twists, manipulates, mangles, falsifies, fabricates, more...



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Opposite:
understands, comprehends

Types:
distorts, twists, manipulates, mangles, falsifies, fabricates, more...




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