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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive & intransitive verb To hear wrongly; misunderstand.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To mistake in hearing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To hear incorrectly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To hear wrongly.
  • verb To misunderstand.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English misheren, from Old English mishȳran, mishīeran ("to hear amiss, not listen to, disobey"), equivalent to mis- +‎ hear.

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