See falsify on Wiktionary
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"text": "to falsify a record or document",
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"ref": "1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:",
"text": "The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.",
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
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"roman": "falʹsificírovatʹ",
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"text": "to falsify money",
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"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
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"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
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"ref": "c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:",
"text": "By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.",
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"ref": "a. 1720 (date written), Joseph Addison, “Section VIII. Against Atheism and Infidelity.”, in The Evidences of the Christian Religion, […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], published 1730, →OCLC, subsection VI, page 66:",
"text": "Hovv much greater confirmation of his faith vvould he have received, had he ſeen our Saviour's prophecy ſtand good in the deſtruction of the temple, and the diſſolution of the Jevviſh œconomy, vvhen Jevvs and Pagans united all their endeavours under Julian the Apoſtate, to baffle and falſify the prediction?",
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"To prove to be false."
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"sense": "to prove to be false",
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"sense": "to prove to be false",
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"sense": "to prove to be false",
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"sense": "to prove to be false",
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"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "cáfol"
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"word": "falszifikál"
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"sense": "to prove to be false",
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"ref": "1833, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States:",
"text": "It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it",
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{
"ref": "1912, Peyton Boyle, The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit District Courts of the United States:",
"text": "The chancery rules governing proceedings to surcharge and falsify accounts are applicable only where an account has been stated between the parties, or where something equivalent thereto has been done.",
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "falsejar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "tekeytyä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "teeskennellä"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "aweke"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "falsificar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "falsifica"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iskažátʹ",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "искажа́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iskazítʹ",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "искази́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "adulterar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "oprovergávam",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "опроверга́вам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "oprovergája",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "опроверга́я"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falsejar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falsificar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "osoittaa vääräksi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falsifizieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "widerlegen"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hifríkh",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "הפריך"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "cáfol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "megcáfol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falszifikál"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falsear"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oprovergátʹ",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "опроверга́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oprovérgnutʹ",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "опрове́ргнуть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falsar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"word": "vervalsen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"word": "väärentää"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"word": "falsificar"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"word": "hamisít"
},
{
"alt": "ぎぞうする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gizō suru",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"word": "偽造する"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "fałszować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "sfałszować"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"word": "falsificar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "to bring into daylight",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "finance: to show to be wrong",
"word": "paljastaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(obsolete in English) to baffle or escape",
"word": "väistää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(obsolete in English) to break by falsehood",
"word": "pettää"
}
],
"word": "falsify"
}
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