falsify
verb /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ/
/ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they falsify | /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ/ /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ/ |
| he / she / it falsifies | /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪz/ /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪz/ |
| past simple falsified | /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪd/ /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪd/ |
| past participle falsified | /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪd/ /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪd/ |
| -ing form falsifying | /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪɪŋ/ /ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪɪŋ/ |
- falsify something to change a written record or information so that it is no longer true
- to falsify data/records/accounts
- She was arrested for falsifying information and obstructing the course of justice.
Word Originlate Middle English (originally meaning to prove something to be false): from French falsifier or medieval Latin falsificare, from Latin falsificus ‘making false’, from falsus ‘false’.