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FALSIFY
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Irregular inflected form: falsified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they falsify ... he / she / it falsifies
Past simple: falsified
-ing form: falsifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
Synonyms:
alter; falsify; interpolate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):
edit; redact (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
falsification (a willful perversion of facts)
falsifier (someone who falsifies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Example:
She falsified the records
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):
change by reversal; reverse; turn (change to the contrary)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Antonym:
correct (make right or correct)
Derivation:
falsification (a willful perversion of facts)
falsifier (someone who falsifies)
falsity (a false statement)
falsity (the state of being false or untrue)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Example:
Falsify a claim
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):
confute; disprove (prove to be false)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
falsity (the state of being false or untrue)
falsifying (the act of determining that something is false)
falsification (any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
Synonyms:
distort; falsify; garble; warp
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):
belie; misrepresent (represent falsely)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "falsify"):
mangle; murder; mutilate (alter so as to make unrecognizable)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
falsification (a willful perversion of facts)
falsifier (someone who falsifies)
falsity (a false statement)
falsity (the state of being false or untrue)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Tamper, with the purpose of deception
Example:
falsify the data
Synonyms:
cook; fake; falsify; fudge; manipulate; misrepresent; wangle
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):
cheat; chisel (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "falsify"):
juggle (manipulate by or as if by moving around components)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
falsification (the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting)
falsification (a willful perversion of facts)
falsifier (someone who falsifies)
falsity (the state of being false or untrue)