Falsify

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfÉ’lsɪfaɪ/

Origin

From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre, present active infinitive of falsificō ("make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify"), from Latin falsificus, from falsus ("false"), corresponding to false + -ify.

Full definition of falsify

Verb

1. (transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.to falsify a record or document
• SpenserThe Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
2. (transitive) To misrepresent.
3. (transitive) To prove to be false.
• ShakespeareBy how much better than my word I am,
  By so much shall I falsify men's hope.
• AddisonJews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.
4. (transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.to falsify coin
5. (transitive, finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape.to falsify a blow
7. (transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.to falsify one's faith or word

Derived terms

• falsifiable
• falsifiability
• falsification
• falsificationism
• falsifier

Related terms

• false
• falsehood
• falseness
• falsity