falsify Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet


Fal"si*fy transitive verb
Etymology
L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See False, a.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Falsified ; present participle & verbal noun Falsifying
Definitions
  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 baffie or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Bulter.
  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.
Fal"si*fy intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To tell lies; to violate the truth.
    It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. South.

Webster 1913