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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lie |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | belie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
| Synonyms: | color, conceal, disguise, distort, falsify, garble, give the lie to, gloss over, hide, miscolor, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, trump up, twist, warp |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distort, exaggerate |
| Synonyms: | angle*, belie, cook up, disguise, doctor*, embroider, fake, falsify, fudge, garble, gloss over, magnify, misrepresent, misstate, overstate, pad, pervert, prejudice, slant*, taint, twist*, warp |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color |
| Antonyms: | be truthful, represent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | distort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deform; falsify |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
| Antonyms: | beautify, shape nicely, straight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | doctor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adulterate, pervert |
| Synonyms: | add to, alter, change, cut, deacon, debase, dilute, disguise, dope up, falsify, fudge, gloss, load, misrepresent, mix with, sophisticate, spike*, tamper with, water down, weight |
| Notes: | the word doctor is derived from Latin doctus 'having been taught; learned' (from docere 'to teach'); physician comes from Latin physica 'natural science; physics' |
| Antonyms: | clean, purify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exaggerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overstate, embellish |
| Synonyms: | amplify, blow out of proportion, boast, boost, brag, build up, caricature, color, cook up, corrupt, distort, embroider, emphasize, enlarge, exalt, expand, fabricate, falsify, fudge, go to extremes, heighten, hike, hyperbolize, inflate, intensify, lay it on thick, lie, loud talk, magnify, make too much of, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, overdo, overdraw, overemphasize, overestimate, pad, pretty up, puff, put on, pyramid, romance, romanticize, scam, stretch, up* |
| Antonyms: | depreciate, minimize, play down, reduce, understate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fabricate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | falsify, make up a story |
| Synonyms: | coin, concoct, contrive, counterfeit, devise, fake, feign, fib, forge, form, fudge, invent, jive, lie, make like, misrepresent, pretend, prevaricate, trump up |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
| Main Entry: | gloss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal truth |
| Synonyms: | belie, camouflage, cover up, deacon, disguise, doctor, explain, extenuate, falsify, hide, justify, mask, misrepresent, palliate, rationalize, smooth over, soft-pedal, sugarcoat, varnish, veil, veneer, white, whiten, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | clear up, explain, reveal |
| Main Entry: | invent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fabricate |
| Synonyms: | concoct, conjure up, create out of thin air, equivocate, fake, falsify, feign, fib, forge, lie, make believe, make up, misrepresent, misstate, pretend, prevaricate, simulate, tell a white lie, tell untruth, think up, trump up, vamp |
| Notes: | The word discover goes back to Latin dis- and cooperire, meaning 'to remove the covering; completely uncover.' By 1553, it was used to mean 'seeing or gaining knowledge of something previously unknown' and 'finding out; bringing to light.' You discover ('uncover') something that is already there, something that has existed but is generally unknown - but you invent something that has never existed before. |
| Antonyms: | tell truth |
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