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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FALS'IFY, v.t.
1. To counterfeit; to forge; to make something false, or in imitation of that which is true; as, to falsify coin.
The Irish bards use to falsify every thing.
2. To disprove; to prove to be false; as, to falsify a record.
3. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
4. To show to be unsound, insufficient or not proof. [Not in use.]
His ample shield is falsified.
FALS'IFY, v.i. To tell lies; to violate the truth.
It is universally unlawful to lie and falsify.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: falsify, distort, garble, warp]
2: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent]
3: prove false; "Falsify a claim"
4: falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records" [ant: correct, rectify, right]
5: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn: interpolate, alter, falsify]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-fied; -fying) Etymology: Middle English falsifien, from Middle French falsifier, from Medieval Latin falsificare, from Latin falsus Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to prove or declare false ; disprove 2. to make false: as a. to make false by mutilation or addition <the accounts were falsified to conceal a theft> b. to represent falsely ; misrepresent 3. to prove unsound by experience intransitive verb to tell lies ; lie • falsifiability noun • falsifiable adjective • falsification noun • falsifier noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 fraudulently alter or make false (a document, evidence, etc.). 2 misrepresent. 3 make wrong; pervert. 4 show to be false. 5 disappoint (a hope, fear, etc.). Derivatives: falsifiable adj. falsifiability n. falsification n. Etymology: ME f. F falsifier or med.L falsificare f. L falsificus making false f. falsus false

Webster's 1913 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.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Falsify Fal"si*fy, v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth. It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. South.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(falsifies, falsifying, falsified) If someone falsifies something, they change it or add untrue details to it in order to deceive people. The charges against him include fraud, bribery, and falsifying business records. VERB: V n • falsification (falsifications) ...recent concern about the falsification of evidence in court. N-VAR: usu N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Belie, misrepresent, counterfeit, misstate, garble, represent falsely. 2. Disprove, prove to be false, show unsound. 3. Violate, break by falsehood. II. v. n. Lie, tell lies or falsehoods, violate the truth.

Moby Thesaurus

alter, be untruthful, belie, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, change, cheat, color, contort, contradict, contravene, cook, deceive, deny, disguise, distort, doctor, draw the longbow, dress up, embellish, embroider, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, fake, fib, fudge, garble, gild, gloss, gloss over, lie, lie flatly, mask, miscite, miscolor, mislead, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misteach, overdraw, overstate, palter, parody, pervert, prevaricate, shift, shift about, slant, speak falsely, story, strain, stretch the truth, tell a lie, titivate, traverse, travesty, trick out, trump up, twist, understate, varnish, warp, whitewash, wrench