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# mislead

verb (mislead, misleads, misled, misleading)

«mislead» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To make someone believe something that is not true, by telling them wrong or unclear things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#m1)
2. To lead someone in the wrong direction or into doing something wrong. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#m2)

### In the lessons

In media and online safety lessons: adverts and fake news can mislead people. In maths: a graph with a strange scale can mislead the reader. Phrases: misleading information, misleading graph, mislead someone into.

### Examples

- The advert misled people into thinking the toy could fly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x1)
- Don't mislead your friends with made-up stories. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x2)
- The sign misled us, and we took the wrong road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x3)
- A graph that does not start at zero can mislead you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x4)
- He misled the teacher about his homework. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x5)
- Fake news is written to mislead people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/#x6)

### Note

Irregular: past mislead → misled (not "misleaded"). Adjective: misleading. Said "mis-LEED"; past "mis-LED". Do not read "misled" as "MY-zld". In maths, check axes and scales so a chart cannot mislead you.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «mislead» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mislead/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«mislead» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/mislead.html) on Mova free.