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Mislead definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MISLE'AD, v.t. pret. and pp. misled. [See Lead.]
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you,
But of the two, less dangerous is th' offense,
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver" [syn: mislead, misdirect, misguide, lead astray]
2: give false or misleading information to [syn: misinform, mislead]

Merriam Webster's

verb (misled; -leading) Date: before 12th century transitive verb to lead in a wrong direction or into a mistaken action or belief often by deliberate deceit intransitive verb to lead astray ; give a wrong impression Synonyms: see deceive • misleader noun • misleadingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (past and past part. -led) 1 cause (a person) to go wrong, in conduct, belief, etc. 2 lead astray or in the wrong direction. Derivatives: misleader n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mislead Mis*lead", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Misled; p. pr. & vb. n. Misleading.] [AS. misl?dan. See Mis-, and Lead to conduct.] To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. --Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. --Milton. Syn: To delude; deceive. See Deceive.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(misleads, misleading, misled) If you say that someone has misled you, you mean that they have made you believe something which is not true, either by telling you a lie or by giving you a wrong idea or impression. Jack was furious with his London doctors for having misled him... VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Delude, deceive, guide astray, misguide.

Moby Thesaurus

abuse, bamboozle, be untruthful, beguile, betray, bluff, bowl a googly, bunk, con, corrupt, cozen, debauch, deceive, defile, deflower, delude, despoil, double-cross, draw the longbow, dupe, entice, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, fib, flimflam, fool, force, gull, hoodwink, humbug, inveigle, juggle, lead astray, lie, lie flatly, lure, misadvise, misdirect, miseducate, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, misteach, mystify, obfuscate, obscure, outwit, pervert, prevaricate, rape, ravage, ravish, ruin, seduce, soil, speak falsely, story, stretch the truth, sully, take, take in, tell a lie, tempt, throw a curve, trick, violate