mislead

«mislead» in Mova's school dictionary: not true, by telling them wrong or unclear things — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (mislead, misleads, misled, misleading)

meaning for a pupil

1) To make someone believe something that is not true, by telling them wrong or unclear things. tree →

2) To lead someone in the wrong direction or into doing something wrong. tree →

sense in the lessons

In media and online safety lessons: adverts and fake news can mislead people. In maths: a graph with a strange scale can mislead the reader. Phrases: misleading information, misleading graph, mislead someone into.

examples

• The advert misled people into thinking the toy could fly. tree →
• Don't mislead your friends with made-up stories. tree →
• The sign misled us, and we took the wrong road. tree →
• A graph that does not start at zero can mislead you. tree →
• He misled the teacher about his homework. tree →
• Fake news is written to mislead people. tree →

note

Irregular: past mislead → misled (not "misleaded"). Adjective: misleading. Said "mis-LEED"; past "mis-LED". Do not read "misled" as "MY-zld". In maths, check axes and scales so a chart cannot mislead you.

In the corpora

• Some philosophers say tricky true words are better than a lie; others say any attempt to mislead is the same wrong.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mislead» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.