Definition of "mislead"

mislead

/mɪsˈliːd/

verb
third-person singular simple present misleads, present participle misleading, simple past and past participle misled
1. (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
  Quotations
  City of the dead / At the end of another lost highway / Signs misleading to nowhere
  2004, Green Day (lyrics and music), “Jesus of Suburbia”, in American Idiot
2. To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
3. To deceptively trick into something wrong.
4. To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural misleads
1. A wrong or bad lead; a leading in the wrong direction.
  Quotations
  If all the misleads (incorrect alternatives) are illogical, absurd, or in any way unattractive as possible answers, the student has no difficulty in choosing the correct answer.
  1951, Improvement of Grading Practices for the Air Training, page 31
2. (countable) That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse).
  Quotations
  The skinny body, a mislead to make people think that he was captured by someone and tortured. Even the loud gunshot was a mislead to make them ask questions to common citizens. His long untidy hair, also a mislead.
  2021, Aren Bjorgman, Frozen Ashes