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fal·si·fy 
Audio Help [fawl-suh-fahy] Pronunciation Key verb, -fied, -fy·ing.
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Audio Help [fawl-suh-fahy] Pronunciation Key verb, -fied, -fy·ing. –verb (used with object)
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| 1. | to make false or incorrect, esp. so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports. |
| 2. | to alter fraudulently. |
| 3. | to represent falsely: He falsified the history of his family to conceal his humble origins. |
| 4. | to show or prove to be false; disprove: to falsify a theory. |
| 5. | to make false statements. |
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fal·si·fi·a·ble, adjective
fal·si·fi·a·bil·i·ty, noun
fal·si·fi·er, noun
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falsify
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| fal·si·fy
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v. fal·si·fied, fal·si·fy·ing, fal·si·fies v. tr.
v. intr. To make untrue statements; lie. [Middle English falsifien, from Old French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre : Latin falsus, false; see false + Latin -ficāre, -fy.] fal'si·fi·ca'tion (-fĭ-kā'shən) n., fal'si·fi'er n. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
| falsify | |
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| 1. | make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story |
| 2. | tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge] |
| 3. | prove false; "Falsify a claim" |
| 4. | falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records" [ant: correct] |
| 5. | insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn: interpolate] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ˈfalsify [-fӕi] verb
to make false
Example: He falsified the accounts.
See also: falsehood, false, false alarm, false start, "falsify" in any languageExample: He falsified the accounts.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
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. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. --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. --Shak. Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and falsify the prediction. --Addison. 4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. --Sir P. 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. 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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Falsify
Fal"si*fy\, v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth. It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. South.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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