'Falsify' definitions:

Definition of 'falsify'

From: WordNet
verb
Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: falsify, distort, garble, warp]
verb
Tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent]
verb
Prove false; "Falsify a claim"
verb
Falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records" [ant: correct, rectify, right]
verb
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn: interpolate, alter, falsify]

Definition of 'Falsify'

From: GCIDE
  • Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Falsified; p. pr. & vb. n. Falsifying.] [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See False, a.]
  • 1. To make false; to represent falsely. [1913 Webster]
  • The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false. [1913 Webster]
  • By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hope. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. --Butler. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. --Story. Daniell. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Falsify'

From: GCIDE
  • Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth. [1913 Webster]
  • It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. [1913 Webster]
  • South. [1913 Webster]

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