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distort the meaning

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distort the meaning verb belie, bias, contort, distort, falsify, garble, interpret incorrectly, misapply, misapprehend, miscolor, misconceive, misdirect, misinterpret, misjudge, misread, misrender, misreport, misstate, mistranslate, misuse, put a false construction on, twist, warp
Associated concepts: distort the meaning of a decision, dissort the meaning of a statute, distort the truth
See also: misconceive
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Thus in most cases if the translation or the interpretation was carried out only on a word level it would either produce utterances that sound very unnatural to the native speaker of the target language or it would distort the meaning.
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