falsify
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (5)falsified, falsifying
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or storySynonyms: distortgarblewarpMore general misrepresent, belieMore specific mangle, mutilate
- tamper, with the purpose of deception“Fudge the figures”“cook the books”“falsify the data”Synonyms: fudgemanipulatefakecookwanglemisrepresentMore general cheat, chiselMore specific juggle
- prove false“Falsify a claim”More general disprove, confute
- falsify knowingly“She falsified the records”Opposite correctMore general change by reversal, turn
- insert words into texts, often falsifying it therebySynonyms: interpolatealterMore general edit, redact
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See False, adjective
1. To make false; to represent falsely.
The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.— Edmund Spenser
2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hope.— William Shakespeare
Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.— Joseph Addison
4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. Sir Philip Sidney
5. To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Butler.
6. Law To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone, Sir William
7. Equity To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. Story. Daniell.
8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
To tell lies; to violate the truth.
It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify.
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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54