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

---

Do you know this game?

Wordscapes is a popular word game consistently in the top charts of both Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The Android version has more than 10 million installs. This guide will help you get more coins in less than two minutes of playing the game. Continue reading Wordscapes: Get More Coins