Found 2 items, similar to falsify.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: falsify falsify v 1: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: distort, garble, warp] 2: fake or falsify; “Fudge the figures”; “cook the books”; “falsify the data” [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, cook, wangle, misrepresent] 3: prove false; “Falsify a claim” 4: falsify knowingly; “She falsified the records” [ant: correct] 5: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn: interpolate, alter] [also: falsified]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Falsify Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, v. i. To tell lies; to violate the truth. [1913 Webster] It is absolutely and universally unlawful to lie and falsify. [1913 Webster] South. [1913 Webster] Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Falsified; p. pr. & vb. n. Falsifying.] [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F. falsifier. See False, a.] 1. To make false; to represent falsely. [1913 Webster] The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin. [1913 Webster] 3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false. [1913 Webster] By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hope. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] 5. To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. --Butler. [1913 Webster] 6. (Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster] 7. (Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. --Story. Daniell. [1913 Webster] 8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document. [1913 Webster]