falsify

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
  2. verb tamper, with the purpose of deception
  3. verb prove false

Etymology

From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre (“make false, corrupt, counterfeit, falsify”), from Latin falsificus, from falsus (“false”), corresponding to false + -ify.

In classic literature

Synonyms

distort, garble, warp

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