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FALSIFY

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Irregular inflected form: falsified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

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 knowingly

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 false

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 story

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 deception

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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