misled

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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Verb (1)

misle (third-person singular simple present misles, present participle misling, simple past and past participle misled)

1. To rain in fine drops; to mizzle.
   • I know a woman of fashion, who is perpetually employed in remarks upon the weather, who observes from morning to noon, that it is likely to rain, and from noon to night, that it spits, that it misles, that it is set in for a wet evening; and, being incapable of any other discourse, is as insipid a...1792, The Prose Epitome, page 323

Verb (2)

misle (third-person singular simple present misles, present participle misling, simple past and past participle misled)

1. (humorous, nonstandard, rare) To mislead.
   • I think Caspari has been misling you somewhat on the subject of Scenedesmus: the cells divide essentially as in Chlorella, but stay in 4 or 8-celled colonies until the next division.1955 June, Ralph A. Lewin, “letter to Joshua Lederberg”, in Profiles in Science, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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