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"word": "misconstrual"
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{
"text": "1975: Paul Simon, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover from the album Still Crazy after All These Years.\n[…] furthermore, I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued […]"
}
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"glosses": [
"To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand."
],
"id": "en-misconstrue-en-verb-a~ExMfVR",
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"interpret",
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],
[
"erroneously",
"erroneously"
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"understand",
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"incorrectly",
"incorrectly"
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"misunderstand",
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"(transitive) To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand."
],
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{
"word": "misconstruct"
},
{
"word": "misinterpret"
},
{
"word": "misunderstand"
}
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razbiram pogrešno",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "разбирам погрешно"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "誤會"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wùhuì",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "误会"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "誤解"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wùjiě",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "误解"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "misverstaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "verkeerd interpreteren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "tulkita väärin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "ymmärtää väärin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "fehldeuten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "falsch deuten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "falsch interpretieren"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "parerminévo",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "παρερμηνεύω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "félreértelmez"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "feiltolke"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nepravilʹno ponjatʹ",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "неправильно понять"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ošibočno istolkovatʹ",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ошибочно истолковать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "malinterpretar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "misstolka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "feltolka"
}
]
}
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/En-us-misconstrue.ogg",
"tags": [
"Mid-Atlantic"
],
"text": "Audio (Mid-Atlantic)"
}
],
"word": "misconstrue"
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"word": "misconstrual"
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{
"word": "misconstruance"
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},
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],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English misconstruen, equivalent to mis- + construe.",
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"form": "misconstrues",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "misconstruing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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{
"form": "misconstrued",
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"participle",
"past"
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"form": "misconstrued",
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"pos": "verb",
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"English lemmas",
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"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *strew-",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms prefixed with mis-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
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"English verbs",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations"
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{
"text": "1975: Paul Simon, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover from the album Still Crazy after All These Years.\n[…] furthermore, I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand."
],
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"interpret",
"interpret"
],
[
"erroneously",
"erroneously"
],
[
"understand",
"understand"
],
[
"incorrectly",
"incorrectly"
],
[
"misunderstand",
"misunderstand"
]
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"(transitive) To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/En-us-misconstrue.ogg",
"tags": [
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],
"synonyms": [
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"word": "misconstruct"
},
{
"word": "misinterpret"
},
{
"word": "misunderstand"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razbiram pogrešno",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "разбирам погрешно"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "誤會"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wùhuì",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "误会"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "誤解"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wùjiě",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "误解"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "misverstaan"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "verkeerd interpreteren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "tulkita väärin"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "ymmärtää väärin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "fehldeuten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "falsch deuten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "falsch interpretieren"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "parerminévo",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "παρερμηνεύω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "félreértelmez"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "feiltolke"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nepravilʹno ponjatʹ",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "неправильно понять"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ošibočno istolkovatʹ",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "ошибочно истолковать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "malinterpretar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "misstolka"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to interpret erroneously",
"word": "feltolka"
}
],
"word": "misconstrue"
}
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