What is another word for "misapply"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "misapply": abuse, away, bad, catachresis, catch, coloring, construction, crack, cross, cross-reading, cut, desecrate, desecration, detort, distort, employ, engine, exaggeration, explain, false, falsification, falsify, garble, give, lying, meaning, misacceptation, misapplication, misapprehend, misapprehension, misappropriate, misappropriation, misconceive, misconstruction, misconstrue, misemploy, misemployment, misinterpret, misinterpretation, misrepresent.