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misrelate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of misrelate

bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, garble, misinterpret, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp

Words Related to misrelate

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

Near Antonyms of misrelate

clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out

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