misrelate

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of <that Hollywood anecdote has been misrelated so many times that at this point no one knows what was actually said> Synonyms bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, misinterpret, garble, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warpRelated Words misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate; belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash; bowdlerize, censor; complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up); mystify, obscure; equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricateNear Antonyms clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out; decipher