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v. (communication) | 1. distort, falsify, garble, warp | make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story. |
| ~ murder, mutilate, mangle | alter so as to make unrecognizable.; "The tourists murdered the French language" |
| ~ misrepresent, belie | represent falsely.; "This statement misrepresents my intentions" |
v. (social) | 2. cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle | tamper, with the purpose of deception.; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" |
| ~ chisel, cheat | engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud.; "Who's chiseling on the side?" |
| ~ juggle | manipulate by or as if by moving around components.; "juggle an account so as to hide a deficit" |
v. (cognition) | 3. falsify | prove false.; "Falsify a claim" |
| ~ confute, disprove | prove to be false.; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories" |
v. (change) | 4. falsify | falsify knowingly.; "She falsified the records" |
| ~ change by reversal, reverse, turn | change to the contrary.; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern" |
v. (change) | 5. alter, falsify, interpolate | insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby. |
| ~ edit, redact | prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting.; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" |
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