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distort
verb. deform; falsify
  • alter
  • angle
  • belie
  • bend
  • bias
  • buckle
  • change
  • collapse
  • color
  • con
  • contort
  • crush
  • curve
  • deceive
  • decline
  • deteriorate
  • deviate
  • disfigure
  • doctor
  • fake
  • fudge
  • garble
  • gnarl
  • knot
  • lie
  • make out like
  • mangle
  • melt
  • misconstrue
  • misinterpret
  • misrepresent
  • misshape
  • pervert
  • phony up
  • put one on
  • sag
  • scam
  • slant
  • slump
  • snow
  • torture
  • trump up
  • twist
  • warp
  • whitewash
  • wind
  • wrench
  • writhe

falsify
verb. alter, misrepresent
  • adulterate
  • belie
  • change
  • color
  • con
  • contort
  • contradict
  • contravene
  • cook
  • counterfeit
  • deacon
  • deceive
  • deny
  • distort
  • doctor
  • dress up
  • embroider
  • equivocate
  • exaggerate
  • fake
  • fake it
  • fib
  • forge
  • four-flush
  • frame up
  • garble
  • gloss
  • lie
  • misquote
  • misstate
  • palter
  • pervert
  • phony up
  • prevaricate
  • promote
  • put on an act
  • salt
  • tamper with
  • traverse
  • trump up
  • twist
  • warp

misrepresent/misquote
verb. lie, distort
  • adulterate
  • angle
  • beard
  • belie
  • build up
  • cloak
  • color
  • con
  • confuse
  • cover up
  • disguise
  • distort
  • dress
  • embellish
  • embroider
  • equivocate
  • exaggerate
  • falsify
  • garble
  • give snow job
  • mangle
  • mask
  • miscolor
  • misinterpret
  • misreport
  • misstate
  • overdraw
  • overstate
  • palter
  • pervert
  • phony up
  • pirate
  • prevaricate
  • promote
  • puff
  • skew
  • slant
  • snow
  • spread it on
  • stretch
  • take out of context
  • throw a curve
  • trump up
  • twist
  • warp

pervert
verb. twist, turn away from what is acceptable or correct
  • abuse
  • adulterate
  • alloy
  • animalize
  • brainwash
  • color
  • corrupt
  • cut
  • debase
  • debauch
  • demoralize
  • deprave
  • desecrate
  • distort
  • divert
  • doctor
  • doctor up
  • fake
  • falsify
  • fudge
  • garble
  • misconstrue
  • misinterpret
  • misrepresent
  • misstate
  • mistreat
  • misuse
  • outrage
  • phony up
  • prostitute
  • ruin
  • salt
  • seduce
  • spike
  • vitiate
  • warp
  • water

prevaricate
verb. deceive; stretch the truth
  • beat around the bush
  • beg the question
  • belie
  • cavil
  • con
  • distort
  • dodge
  • equivocate
  • evade
  • exaggerate
  • fabricate
  • falsify
  • fib
  • garble
  • hedge
  • invent
  • jive
  • lie
  • misrepresent
  • misspeak
  • palter
  • phony up
  • put on
  • quibble
  • shift
  • shuffle
  • tergiversate

slur
verb. mumble words
  • garble
  • mispronounce
  • miss
  • skip
  • stutter

twist
verb. misrepresent
  • alter
  • belie
  • change
  • color
  • contort
  • distort
  • falsify
  • garble
  • misquote
  • misstate
  • pervert
  • warp

misrepresent
verb. lie
  • adulterate
  • angle
  • beard
  • belie
  • blarney
  • blow smoke
  • build up
  • cheese
  • cloak
  • color
  • con
  • confuse
  • cover up
  • disguise
  • distort
  • dress
  • embellish
  • embroider
  • equivocate
  • exaggerate
  • falsify
  • garble
  • mangle
  • mask
  • miscolor
  • misinterpret
  • misreport
  • misstate
  • overdraw
  • overstate
  • palter
  • pervert
  • phony up
  • pirate
  • prevaricate
  • promote
  • puff
  • skew
  • slant
  • snow
  • stretch
  • trump up
  • twist
  • warp

misinterpret
verb. misconstrue
  • distort
  • err
  • falsify
  • garble
  • miscalculate
  • misread
  • misrepresent
  • mistake
  • misunderstand
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Word Origin & History

garble early 15c., from Anglo-Fr. garbeler "to sift," from M.L. and It. garbellare, from Arabic gharbala "to sift and select spices," related to kirbal "sieve," perhaps from L. cribellum, dim. of cribrum "sieve" (see crisis). A widespread word among Mediterranean traders; sense of "mix up, confuse, distort language" first recorded 1680s. Related: Garbled; garbling.

Example Sentences for garbled

Charlie lent an ear to the garbled veblenisms and gave it up.

He garbled his sentences so to speak with excessive and useless wording.

Boccaccio has garbled the passage for the sake of his point.

It was garbled truth, but there was enough to make his spine feel like ice.

Frank, your mother must know, and if she waits she will get a garbled account.

A garbled history of the Gerhardts was obtained from Columbus.

Wouldn't he find out from the major if she had garbled the sense of his dispatch?

How often a garbled account has been given, and yet the whole was so terribly simple!

It has always been garbled in the journals, and even in history.

False narratives and garbled stories will, in any case, of a certainty get about.

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