FALSIFY (falsified)
Dictionary entry overview: What does falsify mean?
• FALSIFY (verb)
The verb FALSIFY has 5 senses:
1. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
2. fake or falsify
3. prove false
4. falsify knowingly
5. insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
Familiarity information: FALSIFY used as a verb is common.
Dictionary entry details
• FALSIFY (verb)
Meaning:
Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
warp; garble; falsify; distort
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
Meaning:
Fake or falsify
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
fudge; fake; falsify; misrepresent; wangle; manipulate; cook
Context examples:
Fudge the figures / cook the books / falsify the data
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
Meaning:
Prove false
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Context example:
Falsify a claim
Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):
confute; disprove (prove to be false)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Falsify knowingly
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
She falsified the records
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)
Meaning:
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
interpolate; alter; falsify
Hypernyms (to "falsify" is one way to...):
edit; redact (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
