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# falsifying

«falsifying» in Mova's school dictionary: **Changing something such as a document, record or result…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb form (falsify, falsifies, falsified, falsifying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Changing something such as a document, record or result so that it is false and tricks people: falsifying the test scores. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falsifying/#m1)

2) (science) Proving that an idea or theory is wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falsifying/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and news «falsifying records» is cheating and against the law; in science testing a hypothesis may falsify it, meaning the results show it is wrong. Phrases: «falsifying documents», «falsifying evidence», «falsifying results».

### examples

- He was caught falsifying his homework marks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falsifying/#x1)
- Falsifying a passport is a crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falsifying/#x2)
- The company was fined for falsifying its accounts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falsifying/#x3)
- Scientists test ideas by trying to falsify them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falsifying/#x4)
- One white swan doesn't prove all swans are white, but one black swan falsifies it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falsifying/#x5)
- She admitted falsifying the report. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falsifying/#x6)

### note

-ing form of «falsify» (y → ies in «falsifies», → ied in «falsified»). Noun: falsification. Formal word; in plain talk «faking» or «changing to cheat».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «falsifying» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/falsifying/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.