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FALSIFY
interpolate, alter, falsify
(verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
falsify
(verb) falsify knowingly; “She falsified the records”
falsify
(verb) prove false; “Falsify a claim”
falsify, distort, garble, warp
(verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent
(verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception; “Fudge the figures”; “cook the books”; “falsify the data”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
falsify (third-person singular simple present falsifies, present participle falsifying, simple past and past participle falsified)
(transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
(transitive) To misrepresent.
(transitive) To prove to be false.
(transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.
(transitive, accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
(transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape.
(transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.
Source: Wiktionary
Fal"si*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Falsified; p. pr. & vb. n. Falsifying.] Etym: [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 baffie or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Bulter.
6. (Law)
Definition: To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone.
7. (Equity)
Definition: 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, v. i.
Definition: To tell lies; to violate the truth. It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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