falsify

fal·sify (fôl′sə fī′)

noun -·fied′, -·fy′·ing

to make false; specif.,
1. to give an untrue or misleading account of; misrepresent
2. to alter (a record, etc.) fraudulently
to prove or show to be untrue or unfounded to falsify their hopes

Etymology: ME falsifien < OFr falsifier < ML falsificare < L falsificus, that acts falsely < falsus, false + facere, to make, do

intransitive verb

to tell falsehoods; lie

fal′·si·fi·ca′·tion noun fal′·si·fi′er noun

Object

hypothesis: Falsifying a hypothesis requires its own rules, or " demarcation criteria " .
intelligence: Blair: It is not a very comfortable position to be accused of falsifying intelligence.
theory: I also dispute what you say about working scientists not spending their time falsifying theories.
document: Anger has been further aroused among the Japanese people by the scandal in which British Nuclear Fuels falsified documents in relation to MOX shipments.
statistic: These works demonstrate how deniers misstate, misquote, falsify statistics, and falsely attribute conclusions to reliable sources.
record: He falsified the records to lend credibility to his claimed cause of death.

Subject

observation: Providing that something can be falsified by observation, the lack of universal verification is not a criticism of science.
event: Perspectives can be added to, modified, or even rejected if they are falsified by events.
evidence: The first is that ideologies persist after they have been clearly falsified by evidence.
history: In particular, his key thesis that university autonomy will inevitably be the cause of civil war is falsified by subsequent history.

Preposition: by

observation: Providing that something can be falsified by observation, the lack of universal verification is not a criticism of science.
event: Perspectives can be added to, modified, or even rejected if they are falsified by events.
evidence: The first is that ideologies persist after they have been clearly falsified by evidence.
history: In particular, his key thesis that university autonomy will inevitably be the cause of civil war is falsified by subsequent history.

Modifying Another Word

not: I am merely citing a reason why it is not falsified.
also: Statistics were also falsified in the CET 21 letter, addressed to the CME Board of Management.
completely: To be just to the English Press, my prediction was almost completely falsified.
indeed: Increases blood pressure key tissues may constantly looking to falsified indeed the.
often: That has been said too often, and too often falsified.

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