falsify
- to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- to alter fraudulently.
- to represent falsely: He falsified the history of his family to conceal his humble origins.
- to show or prove to be false; disprove: to falsify a theory.
- to make false statements.
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Contemporary Examples of falsified
What to make of all these ultimatums, those rescinded or falsified and those left on the table?
Two-plus years ago, Taranto and I had an exchange over Andrew Breitbart's promotion of a falsified video.
The 17th floor not only produced the falsified statements, they did the accounting for our office on 19.
Historical Examples of falsified
They know—you compel me to be blunt—that the accounts have been falsified.
Captain BloodRafael Sabatini
It can be falsified, it can be effaced, it can be even doubted.
Tales Of HearsayJoseph Conrad
The sides then are unequal; and as a consequence the result of the struggle is falsified.
Evolution in Modern ThoughtErnst Haeckel
His labours were of no avail; his prophecies were falsified.
Art in EnglandDutton Cook
If lies were necessary, they would lie; where falsification was wanted, they falsified.
Tristram of BlentAnthony Hope
falsify
- to make (a report, evidence, accounts, etc) false or inaccurate by alteration, esp in order to deceive
- to prove false; disprove
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Word Origin and History for falsified
falsify
mid-15c., "to prove false," from Middle French falsifier (15c.), from Late Latin falsificare (see falsify). Meaning "to make false" is from c.1500. Earlier verb was simply falsen (c.1200). Related: Falsified; falsifying.