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fal⋅si⋅fy

  [fawl-suh-fahy] verb, -fied, -fy⋅ing.
Use falsify in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
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.
–verb (used without object)
5. to make false statements.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME falsifien < MF falsifier < LL 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  [fawl-suh-fi-key-shuhn] , noun
fal⋅si⋅fi⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1, 3. See misrepresent. 4. rebut, discredit, refute, confute, controvert.
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fal·si·fy   (fôl'sə-fī')   
v.   fal·si·fied, fal·si·fy·ing, fal·si·fies

v.   tr.
  1. To state untruthfully; misrepresent.
    1. To make false by altering or adding to: falsify testimony.
    2. To counterfeit; forge: falsify a visa.
  3. To declare or prove to be false.
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.
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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.

Falsify

Fal"si*fy\, v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth.

It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify.

South.
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Language Translation for : falsify
Spanish: falsificar,
German: fälschen,
Japanese: 偽造する
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Main Entry: fal·si·fy
Pronunciation: 'fol-si-"fI
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -fied; -fy·ing
: to make false: as a : to make (as a document) false by mutilation, alteration, or addition falsified the records —M. A. Kelly> b : to report (as information) falsely falsified his testimony>
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