falsify
verb/ˈfɒlsɪfaɪ/
Etymology
From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false + -ify.
- derived from falsificus
- derived from falsifier
Definitions
To alter so as to make false
To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.
- to falsify a record or document
- The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
To misrepresent.
To counterfeit
To counterfeit; to forge.
- to falsify money
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To prove to be false.
- By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.
To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
- It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it
- The chancery rules governing proceedings to surcharge and falsify accounts are applicable only where an account has been stated between the parties, or where something equivalent thereto has been done.
To baffle or escape.
- For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe […]
To violate
To violate; to break by falsehood.
- to falsify one's faith or word
- he would not falsify his promise to Philanax
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA