1. (v.) To make false; to represent falsely.
2. (v.) To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
3. (v.) To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
4. (v.) To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's faith or word.
5. (v.) To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow.
6. (v.) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
7. (v.) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
8. (v.) To make false by mutilation or addition; to tamper with; as, to falsify a record or document.
9. (v. i.) To tell lies; to violate the truth.
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