MEANING
1. To alter or fabricate information so that it gives a deceptive account.
2. In scientific testing, to show that a claim conflicts with relevant evidence.
Use it for
research integrity; testing predictions; documentary fraudKeep dishonest alteration separate from legitimate attempts to disprove.
Words that belong together
- falsify records
- falsify a hypothesis
- deliberately falsify results
On the page
The inquiry found that attendance records had been falsified.
One counterexample would falsify the claim that all such materials conduct electricity.
Researchers designed a tougher test rather than quietly falsifying inconvenient results.
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Word forms
- Base
- falsify / falsifies
- Past tense
- falsified
- Past participle
- falsified
- Present participle
- falsifying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- falsify / falsifies
- Present continuous
- am/is/are falsifying
- Present perfect
- have/has falsified
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been falsifying
- Past
- falsified
- Past continuous
- was/were falsifying
- Past perfect
- had falsified
- Past perfect continuous
- had been falsifying
- Future
- will falsify / falsifies
- Future continuous
- will be falsifying
- Future perfect
- will have falsified
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been falsifying
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic. The fraudulent and scientific senses are sharply different: falsifying records is misconduct; attempting to falsify a hypothesis can be good research. State the object clearly. Verb inflections [base, third-person singular, past, past participle, -ing]: falsify, falsifies, falsified, falsified, falsifying. Derived family (not inflections): falsification, falsifiable.
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