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falsify
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of FALSIFY
1
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of <taking that statement completely out of context essentially falsifies it, whether that's your intention or not>
Synonyms bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp
Related Words misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate; belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash; bowdlerize, censor; complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up); mystify, obscure; equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate
2
to prove to be false <telephone records falsified his claim that he wasn't home that night>
Synonyms belie, confound, confute, debunk, disconfirm, discredit, falsify, rebut, refute, shoot down
Related Words overthrow, overturn; challenge, contest, query, question; doubt, mistrust; debate, discuss, hash (over), moot, talk over
Near Antonyms document, evidence, evince, record, show, support, witness; back (up), buttress, corroborate, substantiate; adduce, attest, authenticate, certify, identify; demonstrate, display, illustrate, manifest
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