MISREPRESENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misrepresent mean? 

• MISREPRESENT (verb)
  The verb MISREPRESENT has 2 senses:

1. represent falsely

2. tamper, with the purpose of deception

  Familiarity information: MISREPRESENT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISREPRESENT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they misrepresent    ... he / she / it misrepresents   
Past simple: misrepresented   
Past participle: misrepresented   
-ing form: misrepresenting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Represent falsely

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

belie; misrepresent

Context example:

This statement misrepresents my intentions

Hypernyms (to "misrepresent" is one way to...):

represent (serve as a means of expressing something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "misrepresent"):

sentimentalise; sentimentalize (look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment)

distort; falsify; garble; warp (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)

affect; dissemble; feign; pretend; sham (make believe with the intent to deceive)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

misrepresentation (a misleading falsehood)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tamper, with the purpose of deception

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

cook; fake; falsify; fudge; manipulate; misrepresent; wangle

Context example:

falsify the data

Hypernyms (to "misrepresent" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "misrepresent"):

juggle (manipulate by or as if by moving around components)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

misrepresentation (a misleading falsehood)

 Context examples 

Interested people have perhaps misrepresented each to the other.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I recollect it was settled by general consent that India was quite a misrepresented country, and had nothing objectionable in it, but a tiger or two, and a little heat in the warm part of the day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I soon discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the rest of the company, and had never seen or heard of them before; and I had a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, that these commentators always kept in the most distant quarters from their principals, in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of those authors to posterity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At such a distance as that, you know, things are strangely misrepresented.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)