Belie: alternatives and connections

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.

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Distorted; misshapen.

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To make false; to represent falsely.

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To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.

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To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices.

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To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.

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That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.

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To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.

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To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.

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To part; to divide; to separate.

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To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.

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To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or d…

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To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…

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Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.

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Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.

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The act of deceiving or misleading.

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The act of deceiving or misleading.

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To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.

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To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.

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