MISINFORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misinform mean? 

• MISINFORM (verb)
  The verb MISINFORM has 1 sense:

1. give false or misleading information to

  Familiarity information: MISINFORM used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISINFORM (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they misinform    ... he / she / it misinforms   
Past simple: misinformed   
Past participle: misinformed   
-ing form: misinforming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give false or misleading information to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

misinform; mislead

Hypernyms (to "misinform" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "misinform"):

lie (tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive)

beat around the bush; equivocate; palter; prevaricate; tergiversate (be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information)

amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth)

sandbag (downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling)

betray; deceive; lead astray (cause someone to believe an untruth)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

misinformation (information that is incorrect)

 Context examples 

I hope, so far as concerns my brother, you are misinformed.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)