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Misconceive

//ˌmɪskənˈsiːv// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To misunderstand.

    "1694, William Congreve, The Double-Dealer Nay, misconceive me not, madam, when I say I have had a gen'rous and a faithful passion, which you had never favoured, but through revenge and policy."

  2. 2
    interpret in the wrong way wordnet
  3. 3
    To judge or plan badly, typically on the basis of faulty misunderstanding.

    "HS2 has never had that. It was missold, misnamed and misconceived. It was promoted as a piece of engineering, rather than as a vital part of the railway."

Etymology

From Middle English misconceiven, equivalent to mis- + conceive.

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