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Verb: falsify  fol-su-fI
  1. Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
    - distort, garble, warp
     
  2. Tamper, with the purpose of deception
    "falsify the data"
    - fudge, manipulate, fake, cook, wangle, misrepresent, spoof
     
  3. Prove false
    "Falsify a claim"
     
  4. Falsify knowingly
    "She falsified the records"
     
  5. Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
    - interpolate, alter

Derived forms: falsified, falsifying, falsifies

See also: falsification, falsifier, falsifying, falsity

Type of: belie, change by reversal, cheat, chisel, confute, disprove, edit, misrepresent, redact, reverse, turn

Antonym: correct

Encyclopedia: Falsify