FALSIFY (falsified)

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Irregular inflected form: falsified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does falsify mean? 

• FALSIFY (verb)
  The verb FALSIFY has 5 senses:

1. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

2. tamper, with the purpose of deception

3. prove false

4. falsify knowingly

5. insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

  Familiarity information: FALSIFY used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they falsify    ... he / she / it falsifies   
Past simple: falsified   
Past participle: falsified   
-ing form: falsifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

distort; falsify; garble; warp

Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):

belie; misrepresent (represent falsely)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "falsify"):

mangle; murder; mutilate (alter so as to make unrecognizable)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

falsification (a willful perversion of facts)

falsifier (someone who falsifies)

falsity (a false statement)

falsity (the state of being false or untrue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tamper, with the purpose of deception

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

cook; fake; falsify; fudge; manipulate; misrepresent; wangle

Context example:

falsify the data

Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "falsify"):

juggle (manipulate by or as if by moving around components)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

falsification (the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting)

falsification (a willful perversion of facts)

falsifier (someone who falsifies)

falsity (the state of being false or untrue)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Prove false

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

Falsify a claim

Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):

confute; disprove (prove to be false)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

falsity (the state of being false or untrue)

falsifying (the act of determining that something is false)

falsification (any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Falsify knowingly

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

She falsified the records

Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):

change by reversal; reverse; turn (change to the contrary)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

correct (make right or correct)

Derivation:

falsification (a willful perversion of facts)

falsifier (someone who falsifies)

falsity (a false statement)

falsity (the state of being false or untrue)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

alter; falsify; interpolate

Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):

edit; redact (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

falsifier (someone who falsifies)

falsification (a willful perversion of facts)

 Context examples 

I need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can show better than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsified by the result.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That these meshes; beginning with alarming and falsified accounts of the estate of which Mr. W. is the receiver, at a period when Mr. W. had launched into imprudent and ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for which he was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on with pretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, really coming from—HEEP—and by—HEEP—fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr. W. himself, on pretence of such speculations or otherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries—gradually thickened, until the unhappy Mr. W. could see no world beyond.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)