'Falsifying' definitions:

Definition of 'falsifying'

noun

The act of determining that something is false [syn: falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation, refutal]

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]