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单词 falsify
释义 fal·si·fy
\-ˌfī\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
Etymology: Middle English falsifien, from Middle French falsifier, from Medieval Latin falsificare, from Latin falsus false + -ificare -ify — more at false
transitive verb
1. : to prove to be false : confute
 < other records or traces which seemed to falsify the hypothesis based on the records that I found — H.N.Lee >
specifically : to prove false so as legally to avoid, defeat, or rectify
 < falsify a judgment >
2.
 a. : to make false by mutilation or addition : tamper with
  < falsify a passport >
  < falsify a will >
 b. : counterfeit, forge, adulterate
  < producing falsified champagne for sale to hotels >
3. obsolete : to cause (as one's word) to be violated or betrayed
4. : to prove unsound or untrue by experience : disappoint, frustrate
 < its spacious promises of a new era have almost every one of them been falsified — W.M.Citrine >
5. : to represent falsely : misrepresent, distort
 < contended that the history of early Virginia had been falsified by the Court party in England — T.J.Wertenbaker >
 < a low-priced sunglass lens said to be completely effective without falsifying the colors seen through it — Newsweek >
 < the novelist has distorted the characters and falsified their motives — Bernard De Voto >
intransitive verb
1. : to violate the truth : tell lies
 < impressed with the fact that he has falsified in his answer — H.G.Armstrong >
2. : to engage in misrepresentation or distortion
 < his account falsifies from beginning to end >
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