misdecipher

present singular third person misdeciphers · participle present misdeciphering · participle past misdeciphered · past misdeciphered

1. To decipher incorrectly.

   I don't know how people misdecipher the loving beats of a heart

   2019, Saroja Krishnamurthy, “A Mother's Thought”, in Sending Love to Mom, page 87

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   Then a number of these mistakes are corrected and lines necessary for sense recovered by modern editors from the previous editions themselves, which effectually shows that the plays were transcribed, and that these mistakes were largely made from misdeciphering the manuscript, as no printer, however bad, could possibly have made them if he had print to copy from.

   1881, George Gould (of Bermondsey.), Corrigenda and Explanations of the Text of Shakspere, page 53

   Spinden completely misdeciphers this I. S. He gives two variant readings, both based upon incorrect decipherments of the terminal date, as follows:

   1938, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, The Inscriptions of Petén - Volume 3, page 128

   The supplementary puzzles, like the half-burned note whose message we decipher (or misdecipher) in Death in Ecstasy, do not further the main investigation, and can send us down a blind alley or after a red herring.

   1983, Essays on Detective Fiction, page 37