verb
- Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story.
- Tamper, with the purpose of deception.
- usage: "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"
- synonyms: fudge, manipulate, fake, cook, wangle, misrepresent
- Prove false.
- usage: "Falsify a claim"
- Falsify knowingly.
- usage: "She falsified the records"
- Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby.
- synonyms: interpolate, alter
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