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fal·si·fy
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sə
faɪ
/
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fawl
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verb,
fal·si·fied,
fal·si·fy·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to make false or incorrect, especially 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.
verb (used without object)
5.
to make false statements.
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Origin:
1400–50;
late Middle English
falsifien
<
Middle French
falsifier
<
Late Latin
falsificāre.
See
false
,
-ify
Related forms
fal·si·fi·a·ble,
adjective
fal·si·fi·a·bil·i·ty,
noun
fal·si·fi·ca·tion
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fɪˈkeɪ
ʃən
/
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-fi-
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n
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,
noun
fal·si·fi·er,
noun
non·fal·si·fi·a·ble,
adjective
un·fal·si·fi·a·ble,
adjective
un·fal·si·fied,
adjective
Synonyms
1, 3.
See
misrepresent
.
4.
rebut, discredit, refute, confute, controvert.
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falsify
(ˈfɔːlsɪˌfaɪ)
—
vb
,
-fies
,
-fying
,
-fied
1.
to make (a report, evidence, accounts, etc) false or inaccurate by alteration, esp in order to deceive
2.
to prove false; disprove
[C15: from Old French
falsifier
, from Late Latin
falsificāre
, from Latin
falsus
false
+
facere
to make]
'falsifiable
—
adj
falsification
—
n
'falsifier
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
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Word Origin & History
falsify
mid-15c., "to prove false," from Fr. falsifier, from L.L. falsificare, from L. falsificus "making false," from falsus (see
false
). Related: Falsified; falsifying. Meaning "to make false" is from c.1500.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
The nature of science is to debate theories and to test and confirm or
falsify
hypotheses spawned by theories.
She also had a doctor willing to
falsify
a birth certificate.
More, scientists attempting to
falsify
is iconic science.
They don't follow the scientific method and they never
falsify
their patently
false opinions.
So this nation needs to
falsify
history to take over a name and history from its neighbors.
Deliberate attempts to
falsify
information will be grounds for disqualification.
The natural experiments that might help
falsify
theories do not come around often.
Deliberate attempts to
falsify
or inflate your responses may be ground for not referring you.
It can't
falsify
the theory in question, its is only a statistical examination of scientific studies.
Yes, employees are getting more and more brazen in their efforts to
falsify
employers' drug tests.
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