misrepresent

1 to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of this summary seriously misrepresents the general tone and substance of the speech Synonyms bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, misinterpret, misrelate, garble, 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

2 to give a misleading impression of deliberately misrepresented the facts of the case Synonyms belieRelated Words contradict; camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, disguise, hide, mask, obscure; color, deceive, distort, falsify, garble, mislead, misrender, misreport, twist; dissemble, feign, pretendNear Antonyms bare, demonstrate, disclose, discover, evince, exhibit, expose, reveal; flaunt, parade, show offAntonyms betray, represent