falsify
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Etymology [edit]
From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre, present active infinitive of falsificō (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false + -ify.
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falsify (third-person singular simple present falsifies, present participle falsifying, simple past and past participle falsified)
- (transitive) To alter so as to be false; to make incorrect.
- (transitive) To misrepresent.
- (transitive) To prove to be false.
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Translations [edit]
to alter so as to be false
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to misrepresent
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to prove to be false
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External links [edit]
- falsify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- falsify in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
