Falsify

Quick meaning: Falsify is a verb meaning To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.

Meaning

To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.

More Meanings

1. To misrepresent.
2. To counterfeit; to forge.
3. (sciences, otherwise archaic) To prove to be false.
4. (accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
5. (obsolete) To baffle or escape.
6. (obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.

Example Sentences

to falsify money

to falsify a record or document

By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.

It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it

Word Forms

• falsifies
• falsifying
• falsified

Synonyms for falsify

Depending on context, synonyms include alter, distort, fake, interpolate, wangle, warp.

Antonyms for falsify

Common opposites include right, correct.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fake, wangle, misrepresent, garble, distort, warp.

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