Word Meanings - FALSIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone. (more info) 1. To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser. 2. To counterfeit; to

Additional info about word: FALSIFY

To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone. (more info) 1. To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser. 2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin. 3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false. By how much better than my word I am, By so much shall I falsify men's hope. Shak. Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and falsify the prediction. Addison. 4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word. Sir P. Sidney. 5. To baffie or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Bulter.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FALSIFY)

• Embezzle
• Appropriate
• confuse
• falsify
• peculate
• misappropriate
• Fabricate
• Construct
• make
• form
• forge
• invent
• manufacture
• produce
• frame
• devise
• coin
• misrepresent
• Foist
• Falsify
• counterfeit
• palm
• pass
• Forge
• Work
• elaborate
• fabricate
• feign
• shape
• make falsely
• Garble
• Misrepresent
• misquote
• mutilate
• cook
• dress
• color
• pervert
• distort

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FALSIFY)

• Expose
• unmask
• detect
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to FALSIFY)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• INVENTRESS
  A woman who invents. Dryden.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• EMBEZZLE
  1. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust. 2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
• FORGETFUL
  1. Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory. 2. Heedless; careless; neglectful; inattentive. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers. Heb. xiii. 2.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• INFABRICATED
  Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural.