mis
app
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hend
Third Person
misapprehends
Present Participle
misapprehending
Past Tense
misapprehended
Past Participle
misapprehended
1
to fail to understand the full or true meaning, intention, or scope of a situation, idea, or statement
transitive
- She misapprehended the instructions and added the wrong ingredients to the recipe.
- He realized he had misapprehended what she told him months ago.
- I think you're misapprehending what I said - I didn't mean it that way.