Mislead: alternatives and connections

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

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To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…

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To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to…

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To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to u…

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To heap up; to accumulate.

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To speak or write with exaggeration.

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See Lye.

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To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the o…

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To exaggerate; to overdo.

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To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate.

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To haggle.

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To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevar…

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To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Taken.

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One who leads into error.

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One who leads into error.

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To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

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To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.

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To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.

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