falsify Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
warp; distort; garble.
verb tamper, with the purpose of deception
wangle; fake; cook; misrepresent; fudge; manipulate.
- Fudge the figures
- cook the books
- falsify the data
verb prove false
- Falsify a claim
verb falsify knowingly
- She falsified the records
verb insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
alter; interpolate.

L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See False, a.

imperfect & past participle Falsified ; present participle & verbal noun Falsifying

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.
To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
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.
To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. Sir P. Sidney.
To baffie or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Bulter.
(Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone.
(Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. Story. Daniell.
To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.

To tell lies; to violate the truth.
It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. South.