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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth. It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. South. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: falsify v 1: 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 [syn: {interpolate}, {alter}]
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