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To falsify something is to change it so that it is no longer true: figures, a signature, a report, a passport. It is a strong, formal verb.
To falsify something is to change it so that it is no longer true: figures, a signature, a report, a passportfalsify一個東西，就是把它改到不再是真的：像數字、簽名、報告、護照 It is a strong, formal verb這是個語氣很重的正式動詞
You falsify evidence. You do not usually say you falsify when you simply tell a lie over dinner — that is just lying. Falsify points at a thing on paper (or in a system) that has been made false.
You falsify evidence你會falsify證據 You do not usually say you falsify when you simply tell a lie over dinner — that is just lying吃飯時單純說個謊，你通常不會說是falsify，那就只是lying而已 Falsify points at a thing on paper (or in a system) that has been made falsefalsify指的是紙上（或系統裡）被做假的那個東西
Though actually, there is a second, more specialist use: if a test goes against a claim, we may say the result falsifies the claim — it shows the claim is wrong. That use is not about cheating.
Though actually, there is a second, more specialist use: if a test goes against a claim, we may say the result falsifies the claim — it shows the claim is wrong不過其實還有第二種比較專門的用法：如果一項測試結果和某個說法牴觸，我們可能會說這個結果falsifies（推翻）了這個說法——也就是證明這個說法是錯的 That use is not about cheating這種用法跟造假無關
In everyday news, though, falsify still means “ with the record”.
In everyday news, though不過在日常新聞裡 falsify still means tamper with the recordfalsify還是指『竄改紀錄』
組成From French falsifier, from Late Latin falsificāre (“make false”). In English it lines up as false + -ify (to make).
同家族的字
- falseto make something false
- falsificationthe noun for this act
- falsitythe same false stem; the quality of not being true
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
falsifyverb/ˈfɒlsɪfaɪ/
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To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.
- to falsify a record or document
- The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man.
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To misrepresent.
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To counterfeit; to forge.
- to falsify money
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sciencesTo prove to be false.
- By how much better than my word I am, / By so much shall I falsify men's hope.
- Hovv much greater confirmation of his faith vvould he have received, had he ſeen our Saviour's prophecy ſtand good in the deſtruction of the temple, and the diſſolution of the Jevviſh œconomy, vvhen Jevvs and Pagans united all their endeavours under Julian the Apoſtate, to baffle and falſify the prediction?
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accountingbusinessfinanceTo show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
- It will allow the account to stand, with liberty to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify it
- The chancery rules governing proceedings to surcharge and falsify accounts are applicable only where an account has been stated between the parties, or where something equivalent thereto has been done.
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obsoleteTo baffle or escape.
- For disputants (as swordsmen use to fence / With blunted foyles) engage with blunted sense; / And as th' are wont to falsify a blow, / Use nothing else to pass upon a foe […]
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obsoleteTo violate; to break by falsehood.
- to falsify one's faith or word
- he would not falsify his promise to Philanax
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。