'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
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]
Synonyms of 'falsify'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alter,
- be untruthful,
- belie,
- burlesque,
- camouflage,
- caricature,
- change,
- cheat,
- color,
- contort,
- contradict,
- contravene,
- cook,
- deceive,
- deny,
- disguise,
- distort,
- doctor,
- draw the longbow,
- dress up,
- embellish,
- embroider,
- equivocate,
- evade,
- exaggerate,
- fake,
- fib,
- fudge,
- garble,
- gild,
- gloss,
- gloss over,
- lie,
- lie flatly,
- mask,
- miscite,
- miscolor,
- mislead,
- misquote,
- misreport,
- misrepresent,
- misstate,
- misteach,
- overdraw,
- overstate,
- palter,
- parody,
- pervert,
- prevaricate,
- shift,
- shift about,
- slant,
- speak falsely,
- story,
- strain,
- stretch the truth,
- tell a lie,
- titivate,
- traverse,
- travesty,
- trick out,
- trump up,
- twist,
- understate,
- varnish,
- warp,
- whitewash,
- wrench