misleads

Verb

mislead (third-person singular simple present misleads, present participle misleading, simple past and past participle misled)

1. (literally, transitive) To lead astray, in a false direction.
   • City of the dead / At the end of another lost highway / Signs misleading to nowhere2004, Green Day, “Jesus of Suburbia”, in American Idiot

   Synonyms:

   forlead, misguide, misinform

2. (transitive) To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.

   Synonyms:

   deceive, delude, beguile, cheat, bluff

3. (transitive) To deceptively trick into something wrong.
   • The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin

   Synonyms:

   seduce

4. (broadly, transitive) To accidentally or intentionally confuse.

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