falsify : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: falsify	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for falsify
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
falsify v make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story Synonym(s): falsify, distort, garble, warp tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" Synonym(s): fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent prove false; "Falsify a claim" falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records" Antonym(s): correct, rectify, right insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby Synonym(s): interpolate, alter, falsify
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Falsify \Fal"sify\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Falsified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falsifying}.] [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 baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. --Butler. 6. (Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. --Blackstone. 7. (Equity) 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth. It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. South.