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Falsified

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 baffle 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.

Wiktionary
falsified
  1. Demonstrated to be false. v

  2. (en-past of: falsify)

WordNet
falsify
  1. v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: distort, garble, warp]

  2. fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, cook, wangle, misrepresent]

  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, alter]

  6. [also: falsified]

falsified

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Usage examples of "falsified".

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

It did not take her long to discover that the cars had not been sent to Minnesota and that the order had come from Cuffy Meigs—but who had carried it out, who had tangled the trail, what steps had been taken by what compliant men to preserve the appearance of a safely normal operation, without a single cry of protest to arouse some braver man's attention, who had falsified the reports, and where the cars had gone—seemed, at first, impossible to learn.

We used force because we appeared to have evidence they were negotiating in bad faith, and we published the diplomatic correspondence they'd falsified to prove our point.

So what we are doing is keeping track of every ballot box that has been rigged, stuffed or falsified in any way.

They were all quite frank in confessing that their investigations concerning Hugher, alias Cardif, had run into a detour because of falsified information at central data centres.

They say that it is not credible that the seventy translators, who simultaneously and unanimously produced one rendering, could have erred, or, in a case in which no interest of theirs was involved, could have falsified their translation.

But it annoyed him to find that his own explanations were always falsified by the event, while Cosmo Versal seemed to have a superhuman foreglimpse of whatever happened.

Some cautioned against working with the Soviet data, on grounds that they might be falsified or fraudulent, although in the longitudes of overlap they agreed well with the Iraqi, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese data.

Not only will your patience be worn thin by the volunteer who will do anything except work, you will be driven to distraction by the arrogance of pressure groups, made heartsick by the outright sell-out, and astonished and hurt by dirty tricks ranging from torn-down signs to the complete lie, the planted scandal, and the falsified document.

Charges of deliberately falsified smear campaigns had been the first refuge of the guilty for so long that resorting to them now would only have convinced a huge chunk of the public that the accusations must, in fact, be true.

As tattoos of ownership could not be removed from the slave’s face without substantial scarring, and freedom papers were widely falsified, it was difficult for former slaves to prove they had earned their freedom.

Surely Huron would have warned him about the falsified IFF signals, and he'd be ready for trouble .

It was only the falsified testimony of the witchers that showed any involvement of Satan with knacks.