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falsify

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "to prove false," from Middle French falsifier (15c.), from Late Latin falsificare "make false, corrupt," from Latin falsus "erroneous, mistaken" (see false ). Meaning "to make false" is from c.1500. Earlier verb was simply falsen (c.1200). Related: ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: distort , garble , warp ] fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge , manipulate , fake , cook , wangle , misrepresent ] prove false; "Falsify ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN theory ▪ There are many more opportunities for falsifying Newton's theory than for falsifying Kepler's theory. ▪ This poses a problem because it apparently falsifies the plausible theory that animals, like humans, see ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect. 2 (context transitive English) To misrepresent. 3 (context transitive English) To prove to be false. 4 (context transitive English) To counterfeit; to forge. 5 (context ...

Usage examples of falsify.

The experiment that appears to falsify these venerable and widely trusted interpretations of quantum mechanics is the Afshar Experiment.

Jase now knows the image they were shown belowdecks was completely, deliberately falsified.

Kothlis buildup eight days before that traitor Carib Devist brought his falsified data to the Parshoone Ubiqtorate station, which was how Solo found Bastion.

Now you are accusing the Monterrey Police Department of collusion with an enemy that has made itself manifest only to you, and of falsifying information.

Willi Reinecke was not above stealing, lying and even falsifying documents to ensure that his men were properly clothed and fed.

Willi Reinecke also got a job with the RAF in Germany after the war, although he had to falsify his age to do it.

Anytime a cop tries to falsify evidence or a prosecutor presents a biased criminal complaint, I say put that bastard in jail instead of his victim!

He could not work out his happy plans of stealing without someone in the Front Office to falsify the accounts, and that one he found in his colleague at the Inn, Clark Cleaver.

What I do deny is that ALL abductees are imagining or falsifying these events to satisfy their own personal agendas.

In fact, if the chore of falsifying building records can be handled more efficiently by cybersavvy clerks, it renders crooked inspections obsolete.

Already, a number of his spies have submitted claims and invoices which almost certainly are falsified.

Yet were I, traveller-like, to stop here, and set it down as a national peculiarity, or republican custom, that milliners took the lead in the best society, I should greatly falsify facts.

This will falsify all suppositions, and nobody will succeed in identifying you.

She later named my office and me in a lawsuit, accusing us of racketeering, among other things, for allegedly colluding with the insurance company to falsify records so no claim was paid to her.

I had also this consideration, that if I should not venture all for God, I engaged God to take care of my concernments: but if I forsook Him and His ways, for fear of any trouble that should come to me or mine, then I should not only falsify my profession, but should count also that my concernments were not so sure, if left at God's feet, whilst I stood to and for His name, as they would be if they were under my own care, though with the denial of the way of God.