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falsify

[fawl-suh-fahy] Origin

fal·si·fy

[fawl-suh-fahy] verb, -fied, -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

fal·si·fi·a·ble, adjective
fal·si·fi·a·bil·i·ty, noun
fal·si·fi·ca·tion [fawl-suh-fi-key-shuhn] , noun
fal·si·fi·er, noun
non·fal·si·fi·a·ble, adjective
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un·fal·si·fi·a·ble, adjective
un·fal·si·fied, adjective
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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 falsusfalse + facere to make]
 
'falsifiable
 
adj
 
falsification
 
n
 
'falsifier
 
n

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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.
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