falsify
pronunciation
How to pronounce falsify in British English:
UK [ˈfɔ:lsɪfaɪ]
How to pronounce falsify in American English:
US [ˈfɔlsəˌfaɪ]
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- Verb:
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- fake or falsify
- prove false
- falsify knowingly
- insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
Word Origin
- falsify (v.)
- mid-15c., "to prove false," from Middle French falsifier (15c.), from Late Latin falsificare "make false, corrupt," from Latin falsus "erroneous, mistaken" (see false). Meaning "to make false" is from c. 1500. Earlier verb was simply falsen (c. 1200). Related: Falsified; falsifying.
Example
- 1. He says this is how many of them deliver on their admission promises : they falsify students application materials .
- 2. The meta-analysis suggested that 14 % of researchers in the underlying studies had seen their colleagues fabricate , falsify , alter or modify data .
- 3. Was able to use his knowledge of its financial plumbing to falsify trades and create fictitious clients who were ostensibly on the other sides of bets that he was taking with the bank 's money .
- 4. Unlike greece , portugal didn 't falsify its public accounts , and unlike ireland or spain , it didn 't have a property bubble that saddled the banking system with mountains of bad real-estate debts .
- 5. The president 's backers routinely falsify bills of lading , inflating the amount of fuel imported fivefold , then collect the government subsidy on all of it , and finally smuggle the fuel to a neighbouring country to sell at double or triple the price .