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misleadmislead /mɪsˈlid/ ●○○ verb (past tense and past participle misled /-ˈlɛd/) [transitive] VERB TABLEmislead |
| Present | I, you, we, they | mislead | | he, she, it | misleads | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | misled | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have misled | | he, she, it | has misled | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had misled | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will mislead | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have misled |
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| Present | I | am misleading | | he, she, it | is misleading | | you, we, they | are misleading | | Past | I, he, she, it | was misleading | | you, we, they | were misleading | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been misleading | | he, she, it | has been misleading | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been misleading | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be misleading | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been misleading |
THESAURUS to deliberately tell someone something that is not true► lie to deliberately tell someone something that is not true: I could tell that Tom was lying. Don’t listen to him. He’s lying through his teeth (=deliberately saying something that is completely untrue). ► tell (somebody) a lie to lie: Are you accusing me of telling lies? Of course it’s true. I wouldn’t tell you a lie. ► make something up to think of and tell someone a story that is not true, especially in order to get what you want: Do you think that man made up the story about car trouble to get money from us? ► invent invent means the same as make something up but sounds more formal: She invented the story about her mother being sick so that we would feel sorry for her. ► mislead to make someone believe something that is not true, by giving him or her information that is not complete or not completely true: Politicians have misled the public about the dangers of these chemicals. ► deceive to make someone believe something that is not true: She still found it hard to believe that he had deceived and betrayed her. ► falsify formal to dishonestly change official documents or records so that they contain false information: She was found guilty of falsifying the company’s financial accounts. ► perjure yourself/commit perjury formal to tell a lie in a court of law when you have promised to tell the truth: Company executives may have perjured themselves in sworn testimony to Congress. to make someone believe something that is not true by giving him or her false or incomplete information: mislead somebody about something They may have misled the public about the true cost of the program.be misled by something Don’t be misled by the word “natural” on the label – it doesn’t mean it’s good for you.mislead somebody into doing something They misled customers into buying the wrong type of insurance.► see thesaurus at lie2 |