Verb

(deceiv)

To trick or mislead.

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Verb

(en-verb)

To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.

to falsify a record or document

* Spenser

The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.

To misrepresent.

To prove to be false.

* Shakespeare

By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.

* Addison

Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the prediction.

To counterfeit; to forge.

to falsify coin

(finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.

(Story)

(Daniell)

(obsolete) To baffle or escape.

* Samuel Butler

For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe

(obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.

to falsify one's faith or word

(Sir Philip Sidney)