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All belie synonyms

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verb belie

  • negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
  • contradict — If you contradict someone, you say that what they have just said is wrong, or suggest that it is wrong by saying something different.
  • repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
  • mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
  • misstate — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
  • distort — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
  • gloss over — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
  • contravene — To contravene a law or rule means to do something that is forbidden by the law or rule.
  • deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
  • disagree — to fail to agree; differ: The conclusions disagree with the facts. The theories disagree in their basic premises.
  • negative — expressing or containing negation or denial: a negative response to the question.
  • controvert — to deny, refute, or oppose (some argument or opinion)
  • oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
  • confute — to prove (a person or thing) wrong, invalid, or mistaken; disprove
  • gainsay — to deny, dispute, or contradict.
  • pervert — to affect with perversion.
  • hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
  • disguise — to change the appearance or guise of so as to conceal identity or mislead, as by means of deceptive garb: The king was disguised as a peasant.
  • color — the sensation resulting from stimulation of the retina of the eye by light waves of certain lengths
  • warp — OS/2
  • twist — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
  • conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
  • misrepresent — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
  • falsify — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
  • garble — to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions.
  • disaffirm — to deny; contradict.
  • give the lie to — a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification. Antonyms: truth.
  • miscolor — to give a wrong color to.
  • trump up — Cards. any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit. Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.
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