falsify Definition
fal·sify (fôl′sə fī′)
noun -·fied′, -·fy′·ing
- to make false; specif.,
- to give an untrue or misleading account of; misrepresent
- 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
falsify Related Forms
fal′·si·fi·ca′·tion noun
fal′·si·fi′er noun
falsify Synonyms
falsify Usage Examples
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.
Browse dictionary entries near falsify
- ‹ falsifiable
- ‹ falsies
- ‹ falsetto
- ‹ falsely
- ‹ falsehood
- ‹ falsehearted
- ‹ falseface
- ‹ false teeth
- ‹ false step
- ‹ false statement

