Falsify

Definitions: Falsify

Falsify

Verb

1. Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story.

2. Fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data".

3. Prove false; "Falsify a claim".

4. Falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records".

5. Insert words into texts.

Date "falsify" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Falsify

Synonyms: alter (v), cook (v), distort (v), fake (v), fudge (v), garble (v), interpolate (v), manipulate (v), misrepresent (v), wangle (v), warp (v). (additional references)

Antonym: correct (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Accounts	Falsify an account, garble an account, cook an account, cook the books, doctor an account.
	Bring to book, tax, surcharge and falsify.
Disappointment	Disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure); crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish).
Error	Cause error; mislead, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; beguile, misinform; (misteach); delude; give a false impression, give a false idea; falsify, misstate; deceive; lie.
Falsehood	Misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon; (misinterpret)
Misinterpretation	Misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble; (falsify); distort, detort; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false construction on; give a false coloring.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Falsify

English words defined with "falsify": cook ♦ fake, Falsified, fudge ♦ manipulate, misrepresent ♦ Unpredict ♦ wangle. (references)

Specialty definitions using "falsify": Doctored Dice. (references)

Etymologies containing "falsify": liar. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Guinea	In 1997, the GOG uncovered a fraud scheme involving officials from the economic and trade ministries and the head of a French corporation in which both parties conspired to falsify documents and defraud the government of millions of USD. (references)
Human Rights	Turkey	The law mandates heavy jail sentences and fines for medical personnel who falsify reports to hide torture, those who knowingly use such reports, and those who coerce doctors into making them. (references)
Worker Rights	Kuwait	Some South Asian and Southeast Asian domestic servants are under age 18. Such underage workers reportedly falsify their ages in order to enter the country. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Falsify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.64% of the time. "Falsify" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	83.64%	46	50,285
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.36%	9	117,287
Total	100.00%	55	N/A

Expressions using "falsify": falsify an account ♦ surcharge and falsify. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "falsify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		falsifikoj (adulterate, counterfeit, fabricate, fake, forge, wangle), shtrembëroj (bevel, contort, deface, deform, deprave, distort, mutilate, skew, slant, sophisticate, travesty, warp), bëj pohime të rreme. (various references)

Arabic		‏كذب (contradict, deceive, delude, disclaim, dishonesty, fable, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fib, impugn, lie, lying, mendacity, mislead, untruth), ‏غش (adulterate, adulteration, bilk, cheat, cheating, copy, debase, deceit, deceive, deception, defraudation, diddle, fudge, jiggery pokery, nobble, rig, sell, short, sting, swindle), ‏حرف (brim, brink, character, contort, corrupt, deviate, distort, diverge, edge, garble, letter, list, margin, misrepresent, particle, slant, tamper, torture, twist, wrest), ‏زيف (adulterate, alloy, artificiality, counterfeit, doctor, fabricate, fake, falsity, forge, imitate, mockery, sham), ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench), ‏دحض (break, confute, demolish, disclaim, disproof, disprove, falsification, negative, objection, rebut, rebuttal, refutation, refute, squash). (various references)

Bulgarian		фалшифицирам (adulterate, corrupt, counterfeit, doctor, fake, garble, gerrymander, manipulate, tamper), преиначавам (slant, wrench), подправям (adulterate, cook, debase, doctor, dose, dress, fabricate, fiddle, fix up, flavour, forge, gaff, imitate, load, raise, salt, season, sophisticate, spice, wangle), изопачавам (become distorted, bend, color, colour, contort, corrupt, deform, distort, mangle, mutilate, pervert, torture, travesty, turn about, twist). (various references)

Chinese		弄虚 (Falsified, Falsifying). (various references)

Czech		falšovat (adulterate, doctor, fabricate, fake, forge, tamper), vyvrátit (confute, dispel, disprove, explode, rebut, refute), překroutit (distort, garble, misinterpret, misrepresent, pervert, skew, twist, wrench), padìlat (counterfeit, fabricate, fake, forge). (various references)

Dutch		vervalsen (adulterate, adulteration). (various references)

Esperanto		falsigi, falsi. (various references)

Faeroese		falska, falsa (defraud, swindle). (various references)

Finnish		väärentää (adulterate, counterfeit, forge). (various references)

French		falsifier (fake). (various references)

Frisian		ferfalskje (adulterate). (various references)

German		fälschen (counterfeit, fake, forge, fudge), verfälschen (adulterate, bastardize, distort, misrepresent, put out, sophisticate, tamper with, to bastardize, to sophisticate, weight), verfälsche. (various references)

Greek		νοθεύω (adulterate, sophisticate, to doctor), πλαστογραφώ (cook, cook the books, counterfeit, forge). (various references)

Hebrew		לעות (contort, corrupt, distort, pervert, strain, subvert, twist, warp), לזיף (fabricate, fake, forge, sham, simulate, tamper), לסלף (distort, garble, misrepresent, parody, pervert, skew, twist, wrench, wrest). (various references)

Hungarian		hamisít (adulterate, cook, counterfeit, debase, fake, forge, to adulterate, to cog, to cook, to debase, to deprave, to doctor, to fake, to falsify, to forge). (various references)

Italian		falsificare (counterfeit, doctor, fabricate, fake, fiddle, forge), truccare (disguise, disguise oneself, fix, make oneself up, make up, makeups, rig, soup up), manipolare (adulterate, handle, manipulate, rig, to cook up), contraffare (adulterate, counterfeit, fake, fiddle, forge, imitate, lift, pirate, simulate), alterare (alter, change, clone, forge, garble, get angry, go bad, go sour, lose one's temper, modify, transform, weather). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		矯める (to correct, to cure, to falsify, to straighten), 偽る (to cheat, to deceive, to falsify, to lie, to pretend). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ためる (to accumulate, to amass, to correct, to cure, to falsify, to save, to straighten), いつわる (to cheat, to deceive, to falsify, to lie, to pretend), �"まかす (to deceive, to falsify, to misrepresent), じじつ�'ま�'る (to falsify a fact). (various references)

Manx		foalsaghey (counterfeit, deceitfully, deceive, doctor, fake, falsification, forge), breageragh (falsification). (various references)

Norwegian		forfalske (adulterate, counterfeit, fake). (various references)

Pig Latin		alsifyfay.(various references)

Portuguese		falsificar (adulterate, bast, counterfeit, doctor, dope, dosimeter, fake, forge, fudge, garble, gerrymander, manipulation, pirate, tamper, to doctor, vitiate, wangle), adulterar (adulterate, bast, betray, commit adultery, dash, debase, dilute, doctor, dope, drug, fill an order, garble, loaded, misinterpret, sophisticate, spoil, tamper, to cut, to doctor, to hit, weaken). (various references)

Romanian		falsifica (adulterate, alter, cook, counterfeit, debase, distort, doctor, Duff, fake, feign, fiddle, forge, fudge, huckster, mystify, sophisticate). (various references)

Russian		фальсифицировать (adulterate, fake). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		falsifikovati (counterfeit, fake, forge, wangle). (various references)

Spanish		falsificar (counterfeit, debase, fabricate, fake, fiddle, forge, imitate, juggle, juggle with, misrepresent, pirate, rig, to doctor, trump up). (various references)

Swedish		förfalska (adulterate, constitution, cook, counterfeit, debase, doctor, fabricate, fake, fake up, fiddle, forge, load). (various references)

Thai		แส�"งให้เห็นว่าไม่จริง. (various references)

Turkish		tahrif etmek (deface, tamper with), sahtesini yapmak (counterfeit, debase, fabricate, fake, forge), oynama yapmak (bend, cook, cook up, juggle, juggle with, manipulate), kalpazanlık yapmak, değiştirmek (alter, alternate, amend, change, commute, convert, disguise, diversify, doctor, exchange, garble, inflect, interchange, intersperse, juggle with, metamorphose, modify, recast, replace, revise, shed, shift, specialize, swap, switch, switch to, swop, transmute, unmake, vary), aslı olmadığını ispatlamak. (various references)

Turkmen		galplaюdyrmak. (various references)

Ukranian		фальсифікувати (adulterate, counterfeit, doctor), підробляти (adulterate, counterfeit, fake, feign, forge, imitate, mimic, tamper). (various references)

Welsh		anwireddu (belie). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adultera, adulterabis, adulterans, adulterantes, adulterare, adulteraverint, adulteres, corrumpam, corrumpantur, corrumpas, corrumpet, corrumpetur, corrumpit, corrumpitur, corrumpunt, corruperat, corruperunt, corrupimus, corrupit, corrupta, corruptae, corruptam, corruptaque, corrupti, corrupto, corruptorum, corruptum, corruptus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "falsify": falsifying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Falsify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: falsey, falsive, Falusi, folksily. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "falsify" (pronounced fô"lsufī')
5	-l s u f ī'	calcify.
4	-s u f ī'	classify, crucify, declassify, detoxify, diversify, intensify, ossify, pacify, reclassify, specify.
3	-u f ī'	acidify, amplify, beautify, certify, clarify, codify, decertify, deify, demystify, dignify, disqualify, edify, electrify, exemplify, fortify, gentrify, glorify, gratify, horrify, identify, indemnify, justify, liquefy, magnify, misidentify, modify, mollify, mortify, mummify, mystify, notify, nullify, oversimplify, personify, petrify, purify, qualify, quantify, ramify, ratify, rectify, requalify, reunify, signify, simplify, solidify, stratify, stultify, terrify, testify, typify, unify, verify, vilify.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-f-i-l-s-y"
	-1 letter: salify.
	-2 letters: alifs, fails, flays, yaffs.
	-3 letters: ails, alif, fail, fays, fila, fils, flay, iffy, lays, sail, sial, slay, syli, yaff.
	-4 letters: aff, ail, ais, als, ays, fas, fay, fil, fly, iff, ifs, las, lay, lis, sal, say, sly.
	-5 letters: ai, al, as, ay, fa, if, is, la, li, si, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-f-i-l-s-y"
	+2 letters: raffishly.
	+3 letters: falsifying.
	+5 letters: insufferably.
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