beat around the bush vs mislead

beat around the bush and mislead both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
beat around the bush	No	No	Yes	No
mislead	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, mislead is a hypernym of beat around the bush; that is, mislead is a word with a broader meaning than beat around the bush:

beat around the bush: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
mislead: give false or misleading information to

Other hypernyms of beat around the bush include misinform.

beat around the bush (verb)	mislead (verb)
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information	give false or misleading information to
	lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions