0 to fail to hear someone's words correctly or in the way that was intended and to think that something different was said:
I'm sure I didn't say that! You must have misheard (me).
I realise that we have been bandying about figures, and that earlier in the debate one figure was misheard, thereby producing another one.
He would then risk having misheard a word or having left something out.
I may have misheard him, but it seems a curious view to take of the situation.
I am sure that it was only by accident that he obviously misheard my reply.
It is very easy to mishear somebody; it is very easy to mis-recollect what they have said.
I may have misheard him, or he may have misspoken, but the point was made that it would make divorce more difficult.
Many of us mishear, misinterpret, misrecollect or misunderstand what another person said or what that person had in mind when he said it.
He seems to have misheard what was said by the motor trade.
