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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
falsifying
    n 1: the act of determining that something is false [syn:
         falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation,
         refutal]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Falsified; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Falsifying.] [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F.
   falsifier. See False, a.]
   1. To make false; to represent falsely.
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            The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything
            as they list, to please or displease any man.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
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   3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to
      disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
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            By how much better than my word I am,
            By so much shall I falsify men's hope. --Shak.
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            Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under
            Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the
            prediction.                           --Addison.
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   4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's
      faith or word. --Sir P. Sidney.
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   5. To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. --Butler.
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   6. (Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
      --Blackstone.
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   7. (Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge
      inserted in an account) to be wrong. --Story. Daniell.
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   8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with;
      as, to falsify a record or document.
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