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falsify

DEFINITIONS OF: falsify

1

v make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

Synonyms:
distort, garble, warp
Types:
mangle, murder, mutilate
alter so as to make unrecognizable
Type of:
belie, misrepresent
represent falsely

v falsify knowingly

“She falsified the records”
Antonyms:
correct, rectify, right
make right or correct
Type of:
change by reversal, reverse, turn
change to the contrary

v insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

Synonyms:
alter, interpolate
Type of:
edit, redact
prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting

v tamper, with the purpose of deception

“falsify the data”
Synonyms:
cook, fake, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle
Types:
juggle
manipulate by or as if by moving around components
Type of:
cheat, chisel
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

v prove false

“Falsify a claim”
Type of:
confute, disprove
prove to be false
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