diverge vs belie

diverge and belie both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
diverge	No	No	Yes	No
belie	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, belie is a hyponym of diverge; that is, belie is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than diverge:

Other hyponyms of diverge include aberrate, aberrate, contradict, negate.

diverge (verb)	belie (verb)
move or draw apart	represent falsely
extend in a different direction	be in contradiction with
be at variance with; be out of line with
have no limits as a mathematical series