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What does misunderstand mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word misunderstand? Here's what it means.

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  1. (transitive) To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly.
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I thought the barber might misunderstand me and shave me back to the Ching Dynasty.
To regard this as a propaganda coup is to misunderstand the sociopathic threat that confronts us.
What's new is that only in the most recent epoch has that process created minds that can understand the process, or misunderstand it.
He has certainly managed to get an awful lot of people to misunderstand him.
But I think some decent and sincere people on the Right misunderstand the jocularity around here for a lack of sincerity.
In both cases, they miss the point and misunderstand the man's track record.

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