Usually means: Intentionally guide someone to error.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mislead: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mislead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mislead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mislead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mislead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mislead, mislead: Wordnik
  7. mislead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mislead: Wiktionary
  9. mislead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mislead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mislead: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mislead: Dictionary.com
  13. mislead: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mislead: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mislead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mislead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mislead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mislead: Rhymezone
  19. mislead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mislead: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mislead: Free Dictionary
  22. mislead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mislead: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. mislead: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. mislead: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mislead: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mislead: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mislead: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
verb:  To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
verb:  To deceptively trick into something wrong.
verb:  To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
noun:  A wrong or bad lead; a leading in the wrong direction.
noun:  (countable) That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse).

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