All misquote synonyms

verb misquote

• belie — If one thing belies another, it hides the true situation and so creates a false idea or image of someone or something.
• build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
• cloak — A cloak is a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.
• color — the sensation resulting from stimulation of the retina of the eye by light waves of certain lengths
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• 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.
• distort — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
• dress — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
• 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.
• mangle — to smooth or press with a mangle.
• mask — a form of aristocratic entertainment in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, originally consisting of pantomime and dancing but later including dialogue and song, presented in elaborate productions given by amateur and professional actors.
• misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
• misstate — to state wrongly or misleadingly; make a wrong statement about.
• overstate — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
• palter — to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
• pervert — to affect with perversion.
• pirate — software pirate
• prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
• promote — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
• puff — a short, quick blast, as of wind or breath.
• skew — to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
• slant — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
• snow — Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.
• stretch — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
• twist — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
• warp — OS/2
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• miscolor — to give a wrong color to.
• misreport — to report incorrectly or falsely.
• overdraw — to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
• throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
• 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.
• cook up — If someone cooks up a dishonest scheme, they plan it.
• put on — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• lay it on thick — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• deacon — A deacon is a member of the clergy, for example in the Church of England, who is lower in rank than a priest.
• dress up — of or for a dress or dresses.
• four-flush — to bluff.
• frame up — a fraudulent incrimination of an innocent person.
• play up — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• misattribute — to regard as resulting from a specified cause; consider as caused by something indicated (usually followed by to): She attributed his bad temper to ill health.
• colour — The colour of something is the appearance that it has as a result of the way in which it reflects light. Red, blue, and green are colours.
• embellish — Make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features.
• embroider — Decorate (cloth) by sewing patterns on it with thread.
• equivocate — Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
• exaggerate — Represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is.