释义 |
falsifyfal‧si‧fy /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ $ ˈfɒːl-/ verb (past tense and past participle falsified, present participle falsifying) [transitive] VERB TABLEfalsify |
Present | I, you, we, they | falsify | | he, she, it | falsifies | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | falsified | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have falsified | | he, she, it | has falsified | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had falsified | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will falsify | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have falsified |
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Present | I | am falsifying | | he, she, it | is falsifying | | you, we, they | are falsifying | Past | I, he, she, it | was falsifying | | you, we, they | were falsifying | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been falsifying | | he, she, it | has been falsifying | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been falsifying | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be falsifying | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been falsifying |
- A whole team was kept busy falsifying official government records.
- Mitchell joined the Navy at 16 by falsifying his birth certificate.
- She falsified her birth certificate to get the job.
- Their accounts had been falsified over a long period of time
- Sources say minors frequently falsify their age on maquila applications.
- Theories that have been falsified must be ruthlessly rejected.
- This standard feature makes it very difficult for a car thief to steal a Clio and falsify its identity.
- Those arrested Wednesday face criminal charges of forgery and falsifying business records, both of which carry possible jail sentences.
- You don't look like a woman who would falsify a document to get a job, but you did.
to change facts or information in a dishonest way► twist to dishonestly change the meaning of a piece of information or of something that someone has said, in order to get some advantage for yourself or to support your own opinion: · The lawyers twisted everything I said to make it look as if I was guilty.· Every time I try to talk to him about it, he just twists everything I say.· Write very clearly so that no one can twist your meaning. ► misrepresent to give people a wrong idea about someone or their opinions, by what you write or say: · Your reporter has completely misrepresented my opinions about immigration.· Many women feel that the history books either ignore or misrepresent them. ► distort to explain facts, statements etc in a way that makes them seem different from what they really are: · Newspaper readers are usually given a simplified and often distorted version of events.· These incidents were grossly distorted by police witnesses.distort the truth/the facts: · Journalists were accused of sensationalizing the story and distorting the facts. ► falsify to dishonestly change official documents or records so that they contain false information: · She falsified her birth certificate to get the job.· A whole team was kept busy falsifying official government records.· Their accounts had been falsified over a long period of time ► put words into somebody's mouth to pretend that you think someone has said something that is not what they actually said or meant: · I didn't mean that at all -- you're just putting words into my mouth!· You're putting words into her mouth. You don't know what she thinks. ► cook the books informal to dishonestly change a company's financial records, in order to steal money: · We've just found out Alec's been cooking the books.· The directors of the company made millions from cooking the books before the fraud investigators caught them. ► rewrite history if a government, film company etc rewrites history, it deceives people by pretending that particular historical events did not really happen or that they happened differently: · Hollywood has been accused of rewriting history, by once again denying the role played by African Americans. NOUN► theory· There are many more opportunities for falsifying Newton's theory than for falsifying Kepler's theory.· This poses a problem because it apparently falsifies the plausible theory that animals, like humans, see with their eyes. to change figures, records etc so that they contain false information: The file was altered to falsify the evidence.—falsification /ˌfɔːlsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən $ ˌfɒːl-/ noun [countable, uncountable]: the falsification of records |