falsify — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   to falsify a record or document

   The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.

2. To misrepresent.

   Usage

   • Transitive

3. To counterfeit; to forge.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   to falsify money

4. To prove to be false.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.

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   Hovv much greater confirmation of his faith vvould he have received, had he ſeen our Saviour's prophecy ſtand good in the deſtruction of the temple, and the diſſolution of the Jevviſh œconomy, vvhen Jevvs and Pagans united all their endeavours under Julian the Apoſtate, to baffle and falſify the prediction?

5. To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it

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   The chancery rules governing proceedings to surcharge and falsify accounts are applicable only where an account has been stated between the parties, or where something equivalent thereto has been done.

6. To baffle or escape.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Examples

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   For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe […]

7. To violate; to break by falsehood.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Examples

   to falsify one's faith or word

   he would not falsify his promise to Philanax

Verb

1. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

   Synonyms

   distortgarblewarp

   Broader terms

   misrepresentbelie

2. tamper, with the purpose of deception

   Synonyms

   fudgemanipulatefakecookwanglemisrepresent

   Broader terms

   cheatchisel

   Examples

   Fudge the figures

   cook the books

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   falsify the data

3. prove false

   Broader terms

   disproveconfute

   Examples

   Falsify a claim

4. falsify knowingly

   Antonyms

   correct

   Broader terms

   change by reversalturnreverse

   Examples

   She falsified the records

5. insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

   Synonyms

   interpolatealter

   Broader terms

   editredact