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    FALSIFY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: falsified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they falsify  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it falsifies  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: falsified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: falsified  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: falsifying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Insert words into texts, often falsifying it therebyplay

    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:

    Falsify knowinglyplay

    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:

    Prove falseplay

    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 storyplay

    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 deceptionplay

    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)

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