falsify

== English == === Etymology === From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false +‎ -ify. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɒlsɪfaɪ/, /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ/ Rhymes: -ɒlsɪfaɪ, -ɔːlsɪfaɪ === Verb === falsify (third-person singular simple present falsifies, present participle falsifying, simple past and past participle falsified) (transitive) To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive. To misrepresent. To counterfeit; to forge. (sciences, otherwise archaic) To prove to be false. (accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong. (obsolete) To baffle or escape. (obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “falsify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “falsify”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.