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[ verb ] lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions

Examples

"The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver"

Used in print

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)

If the Cardinals heed Manager_Gene_Mauch of the Phillies , they won't be misled by the Pirates ' slower start this season .

Related terms

lead misdirection

2
[ verb ] give false or misleading information to

Synonyms

misinform

Used in print

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times - granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside - are correct ; but all_too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took_place in the early first millennium .

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