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Entry 9 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Falsify

/fôl'-səf-īˌ/ · Fal·si·fy · IPA /ˈfɒlsɪfaɪ/
01 v. t. To make false; to represent falsely.
imp. & p. p. Falsified; p. pr. & vb. n. Falsifying
  1. 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. 2.
    To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
  3. 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 baffle and falsify the prediction.” Addison.
  4. 4.
    To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
  5. 5.
    To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
  6. 6.
    To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.(Law)
  7. 7.
    To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.(Equity)
  8. 8.
    To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
02 v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth.
  1. 1.
    To tell lies; to violate the truth.
    “It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify.” South.