"mislead" meaning in English

See mislead in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /mɪsˈliːd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mislead.wav Forms: misleads [plural]
Rhymes: -iːd Etymology: From Middle English misleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”), equivalent to mis- + lead. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|misleden}} Middle English misleden, {{inh|en|ang|mislǣdan|t=to mislead}} Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*missalaidijaną|t=to mislead}} Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”), {{prefix|en|mis|lead}} mis- + lead Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mislead (countable and uncountable, plural misleads)
  1. A wrong or bad lead; a leading in the wrong direction. Tags: countable, transitive, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mislead-en-noun-ejcEetRd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Gothic translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Khmer translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Old English translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tatar translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 5 36 5 5 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 44 4 34 6 8 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 4 36 4 3 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 30 9 31 9 14 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 33 7 38 11 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 33 7 33 14 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 31 7 37 13 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 32 7 37 11 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 33 7 33 13 9 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 32 9 36 9 7 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 32 7 38 11 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 32 9 36 10 6 7 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 34 8 40 7 6 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Gothic translations: 38 7 32 11 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 34 7 34 11 8 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 37 7 38 7 6 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Kazakh translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Khmer translations: 33 7 33 13 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 33 7 39 7 9 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Old English translations: 36 5 32 16 8 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 31 9 34 12 8 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 35 6 42 6 5 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 34 7 35 11 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 39 6 37 9 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 33 7 38 11 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Tatar translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 35 7 35 11 8 5
  2. (countable) That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse). Tags: countable, transitive
    Sense id: en-mislead-en-noun-FSkOwqwN

Verb

IPA: /mɪsˈliːd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mislead.wav Forms: misleads [present, singular, third-person], misleading [participle, present], misled [participle, past], misled [past]
Rhymes: -iːd Etymology: From Middle English misleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”), equivalent to mis- + lead. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|misleden}} Middle English misleden, {{inh|en|ang|mislǣdan|t=to mislead}} Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*missalaidijaną|t=to mislead}} Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”), {{prefix|en|mis|lead}} mis- + lead Head templates: {{en-verb|misleads|misleading|misled}} mislead (third-person singular simple present misleads, present participle misleading, simple past and past participle misled), {{tlb|en|transitive}} (transitive)
  1. (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction. Tags: literally, transitive Synonyms (lead in a false direction): forlead, misguide, misinform Translations (lead in a false direction): πλανάω (planáō) (Ancient Greek), أَضَلَّ (ʔaḍalla) (Arabic), մոլորեցնել (molorecʻnel) (Armenian), սխալ ուղղությամբ տանել (sxal uġġutʻyamb tanel) (Armenian), խաբել (xabel) (Armenian), заблуждавам (zabluždavam) (Bulgarian), подвеждам (podveždam) (Bulgarian), desencaminar (Catalan), enganyar (Catalan), 誤導 (Chinese Mandarin), 误导 (wùdǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), svést (Czech), klamat (Czech), vildlede (Danish), misleiden (Dutch), bedotten (Dutch), bedriegen (Dutch), verleiden (Dutch), verlokken (Dutch), johtaa harhaan (Finnish), harhauttaa (Finnish), vedättää (Finnish), vietellä (Finnish), viekotella (Finnish), égarer (French), mésinformer (French), induire en erreur (French), in die Irre führen (German), irreführen (German), 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan) (Gothic), הִטְעָה (hit'á) (Hebrew), félrevezet (Hungarian), megtéveszt (Hungarian), portare sulla cattiva strada (Italian), sviare (Italian), ingannare (Italian), raggirare (Italian), truffare (Italian), disinformare (Italian), адастыру (adastyru) (Kazakh), បំភាន់ (bɑmphŏən) (Khmer), decipio (Latin), tuapeka (Maori), whakatuapeka (Maori), rūpahu (Maori), papahu (Maori), whakapōhēhē (Maori), fortēon (Old English), wprowadzać w błąd [imperfective] (Polish), wprowadzić w błąd [perfective] (Polish), mylić [imperfective] (Polish), zmylić [perfective] (Polish), desencaminhar (Portuguese), enganar (Portuguese), pallquy (Quechua), вводи́ть в заблужде́ние (vvodítʹ v zabluždénije) [imperfective] (Russian), ввести́ в заблужде́ние (vvestí v zabluždénije) [perfective] (Russian), обма́нывать (obmányvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), обману́ть (obmanútʹ) [perfective] (Russian), обманути [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), obmanuti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), завести [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), zavesti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), zavêsti (Slovene), desviar (Spanish), propiciar equivocarse (Spanish), desencaminar (Spanish), despistar (Spanish), engañar (Spanish), encalabrinar (Spanish), vilseleda (Swedish), förleda (Swedish), адаштыру (adaştıru) (Tatar), ayartmak (Turkish), saptırmak (Turkish), yanıltmak (Turkish), kandırmak (Turkish), aldatmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-mislead-en-verb-npcZGZqa Categories (other): English terms prefixed with mis-, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Gothic translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Khmer translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Old English translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Quechua translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tatar translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with mis-: 26 10 34 13 9 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 29 6 48 6 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 30 9 31 9 14 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 33 7 38 11 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 33 7 33 14 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 31 7 37 13 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 32 7 37 11 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 33 7 33 13 9 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 32 4 48 7 5 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 32 9 36 9 7 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 32 7 38 11 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 32 9 36 10 6 7 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 34 8 40 7 6 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Gothic translations: 38 7 32 11 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 34 7 34 11 8 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 56 22 16 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 37 7 38 7 6 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Kazakh translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Khmer translations: 33 7 33 13 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 68 12 10 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 33 7 39 7 9 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 59 20 13 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Old English translations: 36 5 32 16 8 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 31 9 34 12 8 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Quechua translations: 70 12 10 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 35 6 42 6 5 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 34 7 35 11 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 39 6 37 9 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 33 7 38 11 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Tatar translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 35 7 35 11 8 5 Disambiguation of 'lead in a false direction': 86 10 0 4 Disambiguation of 'lead in a false direction': 86 10 0 4
  2. To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression. Tags: transitive Synonyms (deceive by giving a false impression): deceive, delude, beguile, cheat
    Sense id: en-mislead-en-verb-OI45m8ik Categories (other): Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Gothic translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Khmer translations, Terms with Old English translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tatar translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 33 7 38 11 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 33 7 33 14 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 31 7 37 13 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 32 7 37 11 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 33 7 33 13 9 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 32 7 38 11 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Gothic translations: 38 7 32 11 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Hebrew translations: 34 7 34 11 8 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Kazakh translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Khmer translations: 33 7 33 13 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Old English translations: 36 5 32 16 8 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 31 9 34 12 8 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 34 7 35 11 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 33 7 38 11 7 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Tatar translations: 34 7 34 12 8 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 35 7 35 11 8 5 Disambiguation of 'deceive by giving a false impression': 25 73 0 2
  3. To deceptively trick into something wrong. Tags: transitive Synonyms (trick into something wrong): seduce
    Sense id: en-mislead-en-verb-LFtTnqmi Categories (other): Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 30 9 31 9 14 8 Disambiguation of 'trick into something wrong': 0 4 96 0
  4. To accidentally or intentionally confuse. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-mislead-en-verb-k0WxNPMe
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: misleader, misleading [adjective]

Inflected forms

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "guide"
    },
    {
      "word": "lead"
    },
    {
      "word": "direct"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "misleader"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "misleading"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "misleden"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English misleden",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "mislǣdan",
        "t": "to mislead"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*missalaidijaną",
        "t": "to mislead"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "lead"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + lead",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English misleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”), equivalent to mis- + lead.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misleads",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misleading",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "misleads",
        "2": "misleading",
        "3": "misled"
      },
      "expansion": "mislead (third-person singular simple present misleads, present participle misleading, simple past and past participle misled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "transitive"
      },
      "expansion": "(transitive)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 10 34 13 9 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with mis-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 6 48 6 5 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 9 31 9 14 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 38 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 33 14 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 7 37 13 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 7 37 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 33 13 9 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Czech translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 4 48 7 5 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Danish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 9 36 9 7 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 7 38 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 9 36 10 6 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 8 40 7 6 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 7 32 11 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Gothic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 11 8 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "56 22 16 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "37 7 38 7 6 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 33 13 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Khmer translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "68 12 10 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Latin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 39 7 9 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 20 13 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 5 32 16 8 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Old English translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 9 34 12 8 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "70 12 10 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Quechua translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 6 42 6 5 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 35 11 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Slovene translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 6 37 9 5 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 38 11 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Tatar translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 7 35 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Green Day (lyrics and music), “Jesus of Suburbia”, in American Idiot:",
          "text": "City of the dead / At the end of another lost highway / Signs misleading to nowhere",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lead astray, in a false direction."
      ],
      "id": "en-mislead-en-verb-npcZGZqa",
      "links": [
        [
          "astray",
          "astray"
        ],
        [
          "false",
          "false"
        ],
        [
          "direction",
          "direction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally) To lead astray, in a false direction."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "forlead"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "misguide"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "misinform"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literally",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ʔaḍalla",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "أَضَلَّ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "molorecʻnel",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "մոլորեցնել"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "sxal uġġutʻyamb tanel",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "սխալ ուղղությամբ տանել"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zabluždavam",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "заблуждавам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "desencaminar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "誤導"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "wùdǎo",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "误导"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "svést"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "klamat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "vildlede"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "misleiden"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "johtaa harhaan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "harhauttaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "égarer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "in die Irre führen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "irreführen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "airzjan",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "planáō",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "πλανάω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "hit'á",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "הִטְעָה"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "portare sulla cattiva strada"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "sviare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "adastyru",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "адастыру"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "bɑmphŏən",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "បំភាន់"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "fortēon"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "wprowadzać w błąd"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "wprowadzić w błąd"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "mylić"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "zmylić"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "desencaminhar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vvodítʹ v zabluždénije",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "вводи́ть в заблужде́ние"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vvestí v zabluždénije",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "ввести́ в заблужде́ние"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "obmányvatʹ",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "обма́нывать"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "obmanútʹ",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "обману́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "обманути"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "obmanuti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "zavêsti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "desviar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "propiciar equivocarse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "desencaminar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "despistar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "vilseleda"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "tt",
          "lang": "Tatar",
          "roman": "adaştıru",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "адаштыру"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "ayartmak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "saptırmak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "yanıltmak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "xabel",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "խաբել"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "enganyar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "bedotten"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "bedriegen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "vedättää"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "mésinformer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "félrevezet"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "megtéveszt"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "ingannare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "raggirare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "truffare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "disinformare"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "decipio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "tuapeka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "whakatuapeka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "rūpahu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "papahu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "whakapōhēhē"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "enganar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "qu",
          "lang": "Quechua",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "pallquy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic"
          ],
          "word": "завести"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "tags": [
            "Roman"
          ],
          "word": "zavesti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "engañar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "encalabrinar"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "kandırmak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "aldatmak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "podveždam",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "подвеждам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "verleiden"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "verlokken"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "vietellä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "viekotella"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "induire en erreur"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "86 10 0 4",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "lead in a false direction",
          "word": "förleda"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 38 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 33 14 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 7 37 13 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 7 37 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 33 13 9 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Czech translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 7 38 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 7 32 11 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Gothic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 11 8 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 33 13 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Khmer translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 5 32 16 8 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Old English translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 9 34 12 8 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 35 11 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Slovene translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 38 11 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Tatar translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 7 35 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression."
      ],
      "id": "en-mislead-en-verb-OI45m8ik",
      "links": [
        [
          "deceive",
          "deceive"
        ],
        [
          "lies",
          "lies"
        ],
        [
          "impression",
          "impression"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "25 73 0 2",
          "sense": "deceive by giving a false impression",
          "word": "deceive"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "25 73 0 2",
          "sense": "deceive by giving a false impression",
          "word": "delude"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "25 73 0 2",
          "sense": "deceive by giving a false impression",
          "word": "beguile"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "25 73 0 2",
          "sense": "deceive by giving a false impression",
          "word": "cheat"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "30 9 31 9 14 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deceptively trick into something wrong."
      ],
      "id": "en-mislead-en-verb-LFtTnqmi",
      "links": [
        [
          "deceptively",
          "deceptively"
        ],
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 4 96 0",
          "sense": "trick into something wrong",
          "word": "seduce"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To accidentally or intentionally confuse."
      ],
      "id": "en-mislead-en-verb-k0WxNPMe",
      "links": [
        [
          "confuse",
          "confuse"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪsˈliːd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mislead.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/40/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/40/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mislead"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "misleden"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English misleden",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "mislǣdan",
        "t": "to mislead"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*missalaidijaną",
        "t": "to mislead"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "lead"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + lead",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English misleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”), equivalent to mis- + lead.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misleads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "mislead (countable and uncountable, plural misleads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "47 5 36 5 5 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 4 34 6 8 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 4 36 4 3 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 9 31 9 14 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 38 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 33 14 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 7 37 13 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 7 37 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 33 13 9 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Czech translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 9 36 9 7 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 7 38 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 9 36 10 6 7",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 8 40 7 6 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 7 32 11 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Gothic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 11 8 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "37 7 38 7 6 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 33 13 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Khmer translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 39 7 9 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 5 32 16 8 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Old English translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 9 34 12 8 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 6 42 6 5 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 35 11 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Slovene translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "39 6 37 9 5 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 7 38 11 7 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 7 34 12 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Tatar translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 7 35 11 8 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Improvement of Grading Practices for the Air Training, page 31:",
          "text": "If all the misleads (incorrect alternatives) are illogical, absurd, or in any way unattractive as possible answers, the student has no difficulty in choosing the correct answer.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wrong or bad lead; a leading in the wrong direction."
      ],
      "id": "en-mislead-en-noun-ejcEetRd",
      "links": [
        [
          "lead",
          "lead"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "transitive",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Aren Bjorgman, Frozen Ashes:",
          "text": "The skinny body, a mislead to make people think that he was captured by someone and tortured. Even the loud gunshot was a mislead to make them ask questions to common citizens. His long untidy hair, also a mislead.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse)."
      ],
      "id": "en-mislead-en-noun-FSkOwqwN",
      "links": [
        [
          "falsehood",
          "falsehood"
        ],
        [
          "deception",
          "deception"
        ],
        [
          "untruth",
          "untruth"
        ],
        [
          "ruse",
          "ruse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪsˈliːd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mislead.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/40/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/40/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mislead"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "guide"
    },
    {
      "word": "lead"
    },
    {
      "word": "direct"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English irregular verbs",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms prefixed with mis-",
    "English transitive verbs",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Requests for review of Arabic translations",
    "Requests for review of Italian translations",
    "Requests for review of Turkish translations",
    "Rhymes:English/iːd",
    "Rhymes:English/iːd/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Armenian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Gothic translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Kazakh translations",
    "Terms with Khmer translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Old English translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Quechua translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Slovene translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Tatar translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "misleader"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "word": "misleading"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "misleden"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English misleden",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "mislǣdan",
        "t": "to mislead"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*missalaidijaną",
        "t": "to mislead"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "lead"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + lead",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English misleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”), equivalent to mis- + lead.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misleads",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misleading",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "misleads",
        "2": "misleading",
        "3": "misled"
      },
      "expansion": "mislead (third-person singular simple present misleads, present participle misleading, simple past and past participle misled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "transitive"
      },
      "expansion": "(transitive)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Green Day (lyrics and music), “Jesus of Suburbia”, in American Idiot:",
          "text": "City of the dead / At the end of another lost highway / Signs misleading to nowhere",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lead astray, in a false direction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "astray",
          "astray"
        ],
        [
          "false",
          "false"
        ],
        [
          "direction",
          "direction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally) To lead astray, in a false direction."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literally",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deceive",
          "deceive"
        ],
        [
          "lies",
          "lies"
        ],
        [
          "impression",
          "impression"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To deceptively trick into something wrong."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deceptively",
          "deceptively"
        ],
        [
          "trick",
          "trick"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To accidentally or intentionally confuse."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "confuse",
          "confuse"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪsˈliːd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mislead.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/40/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/40/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːd"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "forlead"
    },
    {
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "misguide"
    },
    {
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "misinform"
    },
    {
      "sense": "deceive by giving a false impression",
      "word": "deceive"
    },
    {
      "sense": "deceive by giving a false impression",
      "word": "delude"
    },
    {
      "sense": "deceive by giving a false impression",
      "word": "beguile"
    },
    {
      "sense": "deceive by giving a false impression",
      "word": "cheat"
    },
    {
      "sense": "trick into something wrong",
      "word": "seduce"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔaḍalla",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "أَضَلَّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "molorecʻnel",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "մոլորեցնել"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "sxal uġġutʻyamb tanel",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "սխալ ուղղությամբ տանել"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zabluždavam",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "заблуждавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "desencaminar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "誤導"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wùdǎo",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "误导"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "svést"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "klamat"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "vildlede"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "misleiden"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "johtaa harhaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "harhauttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "égarer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "in die Irre führen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "irreführen"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "airzjan",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "planáō",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "πλανάω"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "hit'á",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "הִטְעָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "portare sulla cattiva strada"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "sviare"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "adastyru",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "адастыру"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "bɑmphŏən",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "បំភាន់"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "fortēon"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "wprowadzać w błąd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "wprowadzić w błąd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "mylić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "zmylić"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "desencaminhar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vvodítʹ v zabluždénije",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "вводи́ть в заблужде́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vvestí v zabluždénije",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ввести́ в заблужде́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obmányvatʹ",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "обма́нывать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obmanútʹ",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "обману́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "обманути"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "obmanuti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "zavêsti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "desviar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "propiciar equivocarse"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "desencaminar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "despistar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "vilseleda"
    },
    {
      "code": "tt",
      "lang": "Tatar",
      "roman": "adaştıru",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "адаштыру"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "ayartmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "saptırmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "yanıltmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "xabel",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "խաբել"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "molorecʻnel",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "մոլորեցնել"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zabluždavam",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "заблуждавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "enganyar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "misleiden"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "bedotten"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "bedriegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "vedättää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "johtaa harhaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "harhauttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "égarer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "mésinformer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "in die Irre führen"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "airzjan",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "planáō",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "πλανάω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "félrevezet"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "megtéveszt"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "ingannare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "raggirare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "truffare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "disinformare"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "decipio"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "tuapeka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "whakatuapeka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "rūpahu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "papahu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "whakapōhēhē"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "wprowadzać w błąd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "wprowadzić w błąd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "enganar"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "pallquy"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "завести"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "обманути"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "zavesti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "obmanuti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "zavêsti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "engañar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "encalabrinar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "vilseleda"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "kandırmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "aldatmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "podveždam",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "подвеждам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "enganyar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "verleiden"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "verlokken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "vietellä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "viekotella"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "égarer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "induire en erreur"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "in die Irre führen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "enganar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "zavêsti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "engañar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "förleda"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "ayartmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "lead in a false direction",
      "word": "kandırmak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mislead"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English irregular verbs",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "English terms prefixed with mis-",
    "English transitive verbs",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Requests for review of Arabic translations",
    "Requests for review of Italian translations",
    "Requests for review of Turkish translations",
    "Rhymes:English/iːd",
    "Rhymes:English/iːd/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Armenian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Gothic translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Kazakh translations",
    "Terms with Khmer translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Old English translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Slovene translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Tatar translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "misleden"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English misleden",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "mislǣdan",
        "t": "to mislead"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*missalaidijaną",
        "t": "to mislead"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "lead"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + lead",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English misleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”), equivalent to mis- + lead.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misleads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "mislead (countable and uncountable, plural misleads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951, Improvement of Grading Practices for the Air Training, page 31:",
          "text": "If all the misleads (incorrect alternatives) are illogical, absurd, or in any way unattractive as possible answers, the student has no difficulty in choosing the correct answer.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A wrong or bad lead; a leading in the wrong direction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lead",
          "lead"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "transitive",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021, Aren Bjorgman, Frozen Ashes:",
          "text": "The skinny body, a mislead to make people think that he was captured by someone and tortured. Even the loud gunshot was a mislead to make them ask questions to common citizens. His long untidy hair, also a mislead.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "falsehood",
          "falsehood"
        ],
        [
          "deception",
          "deception"
        ],
        [
          "untruth",
          "untruth"
        ],
        [
          "ruse",
          "ruse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪsˈliːd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mislead.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/40/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/40/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-mislead.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mislead"
}

Download raw JSONL data for mislead meaning in English (20.4kB)

{
  "called_from": "page/2530",
  "msg": "skipping string in the middle of translations: </table></div></div>\n\n",
  "path": [
    "mislead"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "mislead",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "page/2530",
  "msg": "skipping string in the middle of translations: </table></div></div>\n\n",
  "path": [
    "mislead"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "mislead",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "page/2517",
  "msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'to deceive by lies or other false impression', 2: 'deceive'}",
  "path": [
    "mislead",
    "Template:trans-top-see",
    "TEMPLATE_FN"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "mislead",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "page/2517",
  "msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'to deceptively trick into something wrong', 2: 'trick'}",
  "path": [
    "mislead",
    "Template:trans-top-see",
    "TEMPLATE_FN"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "mislead",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.