falsify
Meanings
verb
- To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.
- To misrepresent.
- To counterfeit; to forge.
- To prove to be false.
- To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
- To baffle or escape.
- To violate; to break by falsehood.
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Etymology
From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false + -ify.
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