misunderstand
entender mal
definition
verb
he had misunderstood the policeman's hand signals
fail to interpret or understand (something) correctly.
translation of 'misunderstand'
verb
entender mal,
compreender mal,
equivocar-se,
dar má interpretação a
example
His characters persistently misread and 'misunderstand' the past.
unless I 'misunderstand' you
I said, distinctly separating every word, so that she couldn't 'misunderstand' me.
Authorities despise him, people 'misunderstand' him and villains continuously plot to get rid of him.
don't 'misunderstand' me—I'm not implying she should be working
I'm trying to show how maybe I tend to 'misunderstand' things or misconstrue things or tend to foreground certain things.
In both cases, they miss the point and 'misunderstand' the man's track record.
Don't 'misunderstand' me - if people want to marry, all well and good, and I don't have a problem with that.
He has certainly managed to get an awful lot of people to 'misunderstand' him.
I don't even think the people that 'misunderstand' me know why.
They do, of course: historians, like everyone else, can misread, misremember, misinterpret, or 'misunderstand' things.
You need to be subtle and sensitive in family situations and personal relationships, as people tend to get hurt easily and 'misunderstand' you.
What's new is that only in the most recent epoch has that process created minds that can understand the process, or 'misunderstand' it.
don't 'misunderstand' me—I'm not implying she should be working
I mean, we're all good people, don't 'misunderstand' me, but their - politics is competitive.
To 'misunderstand' it is to misread the bold signs of what will be the great historical markers our time.
But I'm not saying a child should have a veto; people frequently 'misunderstand' me.
And I'm presumptuous enough to assume that people might actually take the time to 'misunderstand' me.
I believe it is because we 'misunderstand' the real nature of love, and so confuse ourselves about the place of love in both romance and married life.
These provisions are regularly 'misunderstood' or deliberately misapplied by the police.
Are you suggesting that I 'misunderstood' you, misquoted you - or that you want to change what you wrote?
Are you saying that you never said that, or that you did say it and you were 'misunderstood' ?
Tammy says she is made to feel useless by other people; she is 'misunderstood' by other people.
I have apparently 'misunderstood' some instructions from our wine club secretary and failed to pass a menu around.
If I am wrong, then I am either missing facts or 'misunderstanding' the strategic game - or both.
In our view this submission is entirely misconceived and 'misunderstands' the effect of these cases.
It seems it has now become fashionable in this country that in every 'misunderstanding' the option to resolve the dispute must be violence.
Could you state your position on the referendum, and in what ways have you been 'misunderstood' ?
And it's also possible that I may be 'misunderstanding' him.
This is an instance of an audience member 'misunderstanding' a panelist and being corrected.
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