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We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.
Franz Boas

Meaning of "falsify" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FALSIFY

From Old French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre, from Latin falsusfalse + facere to make.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FALSIFY

falsify  [ˈfɔːlsɪˌfaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FALSIFY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Falsify is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb falsify in English.

WHAT DOES FALSIFY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

falsify

Falsifiability

Falsifiability or refutability of a statement, hypothesis, or theory is an inherent possibility to prove it to be false. A statement is called falsifiable if it is possible to conceive an observation or an argument which proves the statement in question to be false. In this sense, falsify is synonymous with nullify, meaning not "to commit fraud" but "show to be false". Some philosophers argue that science must be falsifiable. For example, by the problem of induction, no number of confirming observations can verify a universal generalization, such as All swans are white, yet it is logically possible to falsify it by observing a single black swan. Thus, the term falsifiability is sometimes synonymous to testability. Some statements, such as It will be raining here in one million years, are falsifiable in principle, but not in practice. The concern with falsifiability gained attention by way of philosopher of science Karl Popper's scientific epistemology "falsificationism".

Definition of falsify in the English dictionary

The definition of falsify in the dictionary is to make false or inaccurate by alteration, esp in order to deceive. Other definition of falsify is to prove false; disprove.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FALSIFY

PRESENT

Present
I falsify
you falsify
he/she/it falsifies
we falsify
you falsify
they falsify
Present continuous
I am falsifying
you are falsifying
he/she/it is falsifying
we are falsifying
you are falsifying
they are falsifying
Present perfect
I have falsified
you have falsified
he/she/it has falsified
we have falsified
you have falsified
they have falsified
Present perfect continuous
I have been falsifying
you have been falsifying
he/she/it has been falsifying
we have been falsifying
you have been falsifying
they have been falsifying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I falsified
you falsified
he/she/it falsified
we falsified
you falsified
they falsified
Past continuous
I was falsifying
you were falsifying
he/she/it was falsifying
we were falsifying
you were falsifying
they were falsifying
Past perfect
I had falsified
you had falsified
he/she/it had falsified
we had falsified
you had falsified
they had falsified
Past perfect continuous
I had been falsifying
you had been falsifying
he/she/it had been falsifying
we had been falsifying
you had been falsifying
they had been falsifying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will falsify
you will falsify
he/she/it will falsify
we will falsify
you will falsify
they will falsify
Future continuous
I will be falsifying
you will be falsifying
he/she/it will be falsifying
we will be falsifying
you will be falsifying
they will be falsifying
Future perfect
I will have falsified
you will have falsified
he/she/it will have falsified
we will have falsified
you will have falsified
they will have falsified
Future perfect continuous
I will have been falsifying
you will have been falsifying
he/she/it will have been falsifying
we will have been falsifying
you will have been falsifying
they will have been falsifying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would falsify
you would falsify
he/she/it would falsify
we would falsify
you would falsify
they would falsify
Conditional continuous
I would be falsifying
you would be falsifying
he/she/it would be falsifying
we would be falsifying
you would be falsifying
they would be falsifying
Conditional perfect
I would have falsify
you would have falsify
he/she/it would have falsify
we would have falsify
you would have falsify
they would have falsify
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been falsifying
you would have been falsifying
he/she/it would have been falsifying
we would have been falsifying
you would have been falsifying
they would have been falsifying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you falsify
we let´s falsify
you falsify
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to falsify
Past participle
falsified
Present Participle
falsifying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FALSIFY


calcify
ˈkælsɪˌfaɪ
classify
ˈklæsɪˌfaɪ
crucify
ˈkruːsɪˌfaɪ
decalcify
diːˈkælsɪˌfaɪ
declassify
diːˈklæsɪˌfaɪ
demulsify
diːˈmʌlsɪˌfaɪ
densify
ˈdensɪˌfaɪ
detoxify
diːˈtɒksɪˌfaɪ
diversify
daɪˈvɜːsɪˌfaɪ
dulcify
ˈdʌlsɪˌfaɪ
emulsify
ɪˈmʌlsɪˌfaɪ
fancify
ˈfænsɪˌfaɪ
gasify
ˈɡæsɪˌfaɪ
intensify
ɪnˈtɛnsɪˌfaɪ
misclassify
ˌmɪsˈklæsɪˌfaɪ
ossify
ˈɒsɪˌfaɪ
pacify
ˈpæsɪˌfaɪ
specify
ˈspɛsɪˌfaɪ
subclassify
sʌbˈklæsɪˌfaɪ
versify
ˈvɜːsɪˌfaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FALSIFY

false-hearted
falseface
falsehood
falsely
falseness
falsers
falsetto
falsework
falsidical
falsies
falsifiability
falsifiable
falsification
falsified
falsifier
falsifies
falsish
falsism
falsities
falsity

WORDS THAT END LIKE FALSIFY

basify
bourgeoisify
certify
clarify
decrassify
glassify
identify
justify
modify
notify
prosify
qualify
quantify
reclassify
Russify
salsify
simplify
testify
tipsify
verify

Synonyms and antonyms of falsify in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FALSIFY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «falsify» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of falsify

Translation of «falsify» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FALSIFY

Find out the translation of falsify to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of falsify from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «falsify» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

篡改
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

falsificar
570 millions of speakers

English

falsify
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मिथ्या सिद्ध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تزوير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фальсифицировать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

falsificar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মিথ্যা বর্ণনা করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

falsifier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memalsukan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

fälschen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

改ざんする
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

위조하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Falsify
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm sai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொய்ப்பதிவுரு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खोटेपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kalpazanlık yapmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

falsificare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fałszować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фальсифікувати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

falsifica
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παραποιούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vervals
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förfalska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forfalske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of falsify

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FALSIFY»

The term «falsify» is regularly used and occupies the 77.510 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FALSIFY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «falsify» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «falsify» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about falsify

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3 QUOTES WITH «FALSIFY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word falsify.
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Franz Boas
We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.
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V. S. Naipaul
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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James Schuyler
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FALSIFY»

Discover the use of falsify in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to falsify and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Falsify
After one too many tangles with trouble, fifteen-year-old Tina Tolliver has been sentenced to spend the summer in Truth, Texas with her no-nonsense grandmother.
Kerri Nelson, 2012
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The Majestic Reading: Quran
But with which favors of Lord of you both, will you both falsify? 37. But when she surely split, the Heaven, but she will be opening like the flower. 38. But with which favors of Lord of you both, will you both falsify? 39. But during that Day not will ...
‎2009
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Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings
A Modest Proposal for Definitive Business Ethics My fellow panel members addressed the falsification of accounts receivable in a similarly simplistic fashion: “Do I falsify the accounts receivable and save the company?” or “Do I not falsify the ...
Marianne Jennings, 2008
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Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
We then try to falsify the theory in some other way, with a new prediction. We keep doing this until we have succeeded in falsifying it. What if years pass and we seem to never be able to falsify a theory, despite repeated tests? We can say that ...
Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2009
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Probate Reports Annotated: Containing Recent Cases of ...
-SURCHARGE AND FALSIFY. These words are commonly used together, of a proceeding in equity, to obtain relief against an account alleged to be erroneous. They relate, however, to two distinct kinds of relief. To surcharge applies to the ...
Frank Sumner Rice, George Ansel Clement, William Lawrence Clark, 1899
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Distributed Algorithms: 10th International Workshop, WDAG ...
Statement p.3 does not falsify the consequent, so the consequent holds after p.3 is executed in this case. We now consider statements that potentially falsify the consequent while the antecedent holds. First, observe that no statement modifies  ...
Özalp Babaoglu, Keith Marzullo, 1996
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The Digest of English Case Law: Containing the Reported ...
The amended pleadings nowhere set up any right in the defendant to surchaive and falsify ; but such right was claimed at the bar : — Held, first, that the plaintiffs were entitled to surcharge and falsify all the monthly settled accounts. Mozley v.
John Mews, 1898
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The Touchstone of Common Assurances: Or, A Plain and ...
tenant for years by statute or elegit shall avoid it ; but in these last cases they shall falsify and avoid it during their particular estates only. So also the wife shall falsify the recovery suffered by her husband alone as to her title of dower only, and ...
William Sheppard, Edward Hilliard, 1785
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A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages, Pledges and ...
The expressions to " surcharge " and to " falsify " have been Definition of thus defined : " If any of the parties can show an omission, for f^J^a^" which credit ought to he, that is a surcharge ; or, if anything is and "falsify." inserted that is a wrong ...
Leopold George Gordon Robbins, Frederick Trentham Maw, 1897
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The English Reports
After plea of settled account allowed to part of the bill, motion to amend the bill, by stating facts which tended to shew that there was no settled account, or that the Plaintiff ought to be allowed to surcharge and falsify, was refused with costs; ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FALSIFY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term falsify is used in the context of the following news items.
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Halal Beef Exporter Takes the Witness Stand in His Own Defense
... laundering, but he basically admitted removing labels and changing establishment numbers as part of a scheme to falsify export documents. «Food Safety News, Jul 15»
2
DPD caller ID spoofed, public warned
According to the post, per the Federal Communication Commission callers can deliberately falsify caller ID information and therefore mislead ... «Durham Herald Sun, Jul 15»
3
Senior caregiver licenses yanked from bong smokers
... egregious willingness to falsify documents, falsify records, and continue the false statements to these agencies in order to get what they want. «KOIN.com, Jul 15»
4
Belle Plaine mayor speaks out about controversy over forging govt …
Just a few months into Penn's four year term, some residents are left wondering what else he could falsify as the leader of their town. "He could ... «KAKE, Jul 15»
5
Reckwerdt's sentencing scheduled for September
"Once an employee's salary composition was determined by Reckwerdt, he instructed office employees to falsify the books by hiding and ... «Florida Keys Keynoter, Jul 15»
6
UK regulator drops case against London Whale trader
... for JPMorgan's chief investment office in London, with wire fraud and conspiracy to falsify books and records related to the trading losses two years ago. «euronews, Jul 15»
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The Legal Edition Interviews Mary Holland, Legal Scholar, on …
He's still on the payroll of the CDC, but he has come forward in taped recordings to say that he was pressured to falsify science with a group of ... «Age of Autism, Jul 15»
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Telkom CEO accused of deceiving law enforcement agencies
... registration mark or certain documents; Count 3: Falsify or counterfeit a number plate with intent to deceive the law enforcement agencies. «MyBroadband, Jul 15»
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Two Jackson County couples charged in separate fraud cases
The Hills used the man's identity to falsify documents to purchase a vehicle from Commerce Chrysler Dodge dealership, Mangum said. «Online Athens, Jul 15»
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Cases of 'Caller ID Spoofing' Crop Up in Palatine
Using a practice known as “Caller ID spoofing,” callers can deliberately falsify the telephone number and/or name relayed as the Caller ID ... «Patch.com, Jul 15»

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