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What does misunderstand mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly.
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Some farmers misunderstand what they are supposed to do such as, trimming a hedge when the plan said to coppice it.
What's new is that only in the most recent epoch has that process created minds that can understand the process, or misunderstand it.
Non-Americans, however, misunderstand the true source of our ignorance about them, which only furthers our mutual estrangement.
He tended to mishear or misunderstand things people said to him, and to jump off one emotional cliff or another several times a day.
To misunderstand it is to misread the bold signs of what will be the great historical markers our time.
But I think some decent and sincere people on the Right misunderstand the jocularity around here for a lack of sincerity.

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