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

  • intransitive verb To judge wrongly.
  • intransitive verb To be wrong in judging.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To err in judging of; judge erroneously or wrongfully.
  • Synonyms To misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive.
  • To err in judgment; form erroneous opinions or notions.

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

  • verb To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.

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

  • verb To make an error in judging, to incorrectly assess.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb judge incorrectly

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mis- +‎ judge

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