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BELIE

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

Irregular inflected form: belying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they belie  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it belies  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: belied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: belied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: belying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

Represent falselyplay

Example:

This statement misrepresents my intentions

Synonyms:

belie; misrepresent

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

represent (serve as a means of expressing something)

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be in contradiction withplay

Synonyms:

belie; contradict; negate

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

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

depart; deviate; diverge; vary (be at variance with; be out of line with)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Who knows? you may have to sail with me for a time, he said, quite softly, with a silken threat that belied the softness, as they moved slowly to comply, and we might as well start with a friendly understanding.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I noted Oofty-Oofty, holding the end of a bandage and looking upon the scene, his velvety and luminous eyes glistening in the light like a deer’s eyes, and yet I knew the barbaric devil that lurked in his breast and belied all the softness and tenderness, almost womanly, of his face and form.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)




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