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"etymology_text": "From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre, present active infinitive of falsificō (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false + -ify.",
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"(transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect."
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsificar"
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsejar"
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "vervalsen"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsi"
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{
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "väärentää"
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsificar"
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "hamisít"
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
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"alt": "かいざんする",
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "改竄する"
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "위조하다"
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "ēmentior"
},
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "vitio"
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "tahupera"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "fałszować"
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
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],
"word": "podrabiać"
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
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"word": "sfingować"
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "falsyfikować"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsificar"
},
{
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "denatura"
},
{
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsifica"
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{
"_dis1": "63 2 24 3 3 2 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "falʹsificírovatʹ",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "фальсифици́ровать"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sfalʹsificírovatʹ",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "сфальсифици́ровать"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poddélyvatʹ",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подде́лывать"
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsificar"
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"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsear"
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "falʹsyfikuváty",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
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"word": "фальсифікува́ти"
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"To misrepresent."
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"(transitive) To misrepresent."
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "izopačávam",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"tags": [
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"word": "изопача́вам"
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"sense": "to misrepresent",
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"word": "изопача́"
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "falsificar"
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{
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "falsejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 86 1 1 7 2 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "tekeytyä"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "teeskennellä"
},
{
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "aweke"
},
{
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "falsificar"
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{
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "falsifica"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 86 1 1 7 2 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iskažátʹ",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "искажа́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 86 1 1 7 2 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "iskazítʹ",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "искази́ть"
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"To prove to be false."
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"(transitive) To prove to be false."
],
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "oprovergávam",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "опроверга́вам"
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"roman": "oprovergája",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falsejar"
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{
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falsificar"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 89 1 3 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "osoittaa vääräksi"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 89 1 3 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falsifizieren"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 89 1 3 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "widerlegen"
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{
"_dis1": "4 1 89 1 3 1 1",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hifríkh",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "הפריך"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 89 1 3 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "cáfol"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 89 1 3 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "megcáfol"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 89 1 3 1 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falszifikál"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 1 89 1 3 1 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falsear"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "oprovergátʹ",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
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"_dis1": "4 1 89 1 3 1 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oprovérgnutʹ",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "опрове́ргнуть"
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{
"_dis1": "4 1 89 1 3 1 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to prove to be false",
"word": "falsar"
}
]
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"examples": [
{
"text": "to falsify money",
"type": "example"
}
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"glosses": [
"To counterfeit; to forge."
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"links": [
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"(transitive) To counterfeit; to forge."
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"_dis1": "2 2 2 85 4 3 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"word": "vervalsen"
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{
"_dis1": "2 2 2 85 4 3 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"word": "väärentää"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 2 85 4 3 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"word": "hamisít"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 2 85 4 3 2",
"alt": "ぎぞうする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gizō suru",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"word": "偽造する"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 2 2 85 4 3 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "fałszować"
},
{
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "sfałszować"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to counterfeit, forge",
"word": "falsificar"
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]
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"name": "Accounting",
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"Business",
"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
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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",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"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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],
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"To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong."
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"(transitive, accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong."
],
"tags": [
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],
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"accounting",
"business",
"finance"
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"code": "fi",
"english": "to bring into daylight",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "finance: to show to be wrong",
"word": "paljastaa"
}
]
},
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"ref": "a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Fragments of an intended second part of the foregoing satire",
"text": "For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe […]",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"To baffle or escape."
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[
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"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape."
],
"tags": [
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"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "väistää"
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]
},
{
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"examples": [
{
"text": "to falsify one's faith or word",
"type": "example"
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],
"glosses": [
"To violate; to break by falsehood."
],
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"links": [
[
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"violate"
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[
"break",
"break"
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[
"falsehood",
"falsehood"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood."
],
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],
"translations": [
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(obsolete in English) to break by falsehood",
"word": "pettää"
}
]
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"(transitive) To misrepresent."
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"ref": "1912, Peyton Boyle, The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit District Courts of the United States",
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"ref": "a. 1680, Samuel Butler, Fragments of an intended second part of the foregoing satire",
"text": "For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe […]",
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "keġcel",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "կեղծել"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "falʹsifikavácʹ",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
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"perfective"
],
"word": "фальсіфікава́ць"
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{
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"roman": "falšificíram",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
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"perfective"
],
"word": "фалшифици́рам"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podprávjam",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подпра́вям"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "podprávja",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "подпра́вя"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsificar"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsejar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "vervalsen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "väärentää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsifier"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsificar"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "hamisít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "meghamisít"
},
{
"alt": "かいざんする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kaizan suru",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "改竄する"
},
{
"alt": "ぎぞうする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gizō suru",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "偽造"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "wijohada",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "위조하다"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "ēmentior"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "ēmentior"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "vitio"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "tahupera"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "fałszować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "podrabiać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "sfingować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "falsyfikować"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsificar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "denatura"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsifica"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "falʹsificírovatʹ",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "фальсифици́ровать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sfalʹsificírovatʹ",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "сфальсифици́ровать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poddélyvatʹ",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подде́лывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "poddélatʹ",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "подде́лать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsificar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"word": "falsear"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "falʹsyfikuváty",
"sense": "to alter so as to be false",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "фальсифікува́ти"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izopačávam",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "изопача́вам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izopačá",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "изопача́"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to misrepresent",
"word": "falsificar"
},
{
"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": "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": "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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