From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, v. i.
To tell lies; to violate the truth.
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It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and
falsify.
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South.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, 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.
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The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything
as they list, to please or displease any man.
--Spenser.
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2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
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3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to
disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
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By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hope. --Shak.
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Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under
Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the
prediction. --Addison.
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4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's
faith or word. --Sir P. Sidney.
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5. To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. --Butler.
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6. (Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
--Blackstone.
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7. (Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge
inserted in an account) to be wrong. --Story. Daniell.
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8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with;
as, to falsify a record or document.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
falsify
v 1: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or
story [syn: {falsify}, {distort}, {garble}, {warp}]
2: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures";
"cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: {fudge},
{manipulate}, {fake}, {falsify}, {cook}, {wangle},
{misrepresent}]
3: prove false; "Falsify a claim"
4: falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records" [ant:
{correct}, {rectify}, {right}]
5: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn:
{interpolate}, {alter}, {falsify}]
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