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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Misread \Mis*read"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Misread; p. pr. & vb. n. Misreading.] To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

misreading n 1: misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "misreading": abuse of terms, catachresis, contorting, distortion, eisegesis, error, error in judgment, garbling, gloss, injudiciousness, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misappreciation, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscitation, miscomputation, misconception, misconjecture, misconstruction, misestimation, misevaluation, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misquotation, misrendering, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse of words, misvaluation, perversion, poor judgment, skewed judgment, squeezing, torturing, twisting, wrenching, wrong construction, wrong impression
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

MISREADING, contracts. When a deed is read falsely to an illiterate or blind man, who is a party to it, such false reading amounts to a fraud, because the contract never had the assent of both parties. 5 Co. 19; 6 East, R. 309; Dane's Ab. c. 86, a, 3, Sec. 7; 2 John. R. 404; 12 John. R. 469; 3 Cowen, R. 537.