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misrelate
misrelate
verb
Definition of 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, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp
Related 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, prevaricate
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