misstate

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of a person who can be counted on to misstate even the simplest telephone message Synonyms bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, garble, 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