falsifyverb [ T ]
uk/ˈfɒl.sɪ.faɪ/us/ˈfɑːl.sə.faɪ/disapprovingto change something, such as a document, in order to deceive people:
The certificate had clearly been falsified.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- impostor
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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falsification
noun [ U ] uk/ˌfɒl.sɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌfɑːl.sə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
falsification of evidence
falsifiable
adjective uk/ˈfɒl.sɪ.faɪ.ə.bəl//ˈfɑːl.sə.faɪ.ə.bəl/
a falsifiable hypothesis