misapprehending

Verb

misapprehend (third-person singular simple present misapprehends, present participle misapprehending, simple past and past participle misapprehended)

1. (transitive) To interpret incorrectly; to misunderstand.
   • I define white as a social category, not a racial category. Of course, it carries unmistakable racial meanings, but as I have argued in this book, to see it as racial and nothing more is to misapprehend it.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 139