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Collocations for mislead - verb

ADVERB

seriously
completely, totally
actively (esp. BrE), deliberately, intentionally
She was accused of deliberately misleading the commission.
allegedly
easily
They were naive and easily misled.

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VERB + mislead

attempt to, try to
be liable to (esp. BrE)
Statistics taken on their own are liable to mislead.

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PREPOSITION

about
The House has been totally misled about this affair.
into
The company misled hundreds of people into investing their money unwisely.

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Mislead is used with these nouns as the object:
parliament, press, public, stockholder

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