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misinform

misinform verb: to give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information to.

Verb

misinform (third-person singular simple present misinforms, present participle misinforming, simple past and past participle misinformed)

  1. (transitive) To give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information to.
    • It is clear that the politician misinformed the public on the issue.
    • Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
      Rick: I was misinformed.1942, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca

misinform meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

misinform in Urdu

غلط اطلاع دینا, جھوٹی خبر دینا

misinform in Malayalam

give wrong information, mislead, misguide
തെറ്റായ വിവരം നൽകുക, വഴിതെറ്റിക്കുക, തെറ്റായി അറിവുകൊടുക്കുക, വഞ്ചിക്കുക, അബദ്ധത്തിൽചാടിക്കുക, തെറ്റിദ്ധരിപ്പിക്കുക

misinform in Kannada

ತಪ್ಪು ತಿಳಿವಳಿಕೆ ಕೊಡು, ತಪ್ಪು ತಿಳುವಳಿಕೆ ನೀಡು, ತಪ್ಪುಸುದ್ದಿ ಕೊಡು, ತಪ್ಪು ಸಮಾಚಾರ ಕೊಡು, ತಪ್ಪು ಮಾಹಿತಿ ಒದಗಿಸು

Synonyms of misinform

Forms of misinform

third-person singular presentmisinforms
present participlemisinforming
past participlemisinformed
pastmisinformed

Origin of misinform

From mis- + inform.

Words that rhyme with misinform

9 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about misinform

What does misinform mean?
Misinform means to give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information to.
What is misinform in Urdu?
Misinform in Urdu is غلط اطلاع دینا, جھوٹی خبر دینا. See Misinform meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is misinform?
Misinform is a verb.
What is the past tense of misinform?
The past tense of misinform is misinformed.

Words near misinform in the dictionary

  1. misinfluences
  2. misinfluencing
  3. misinfo
  4. misinfographic
  5. misinfographics
  6. misinform
  7. misinformant
  8. misinformants
  9. misinformation
  10. misinformational
  11. misinformationist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misinform (page history and authors); misinform (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misinform (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); misinform (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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