Antonyms of verb falsify

1 of 5 senses of falsify

Sense 4
falsify -- (falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records")
       Antonym of correct (Sense 1)
      => correct, rectify, right -- (make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb falsify

5 senses of falsify

Sense 1
falsify, distort, garble, warp -- (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)
       => misrepresent, belie -- (represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions")

Sense 2
fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent -- (tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data")
       => cheat, chisel -- (engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?")

Sense 3
falsify -- (prove false; "Falsify a claim")
       => disprove, confute -- (prove to be false; "The physicist disproved his colleagues' theories")

Sense 4
falsify -- (falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records")
       => change by reversal, turn, reverse -- (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")

Sense 5
interpolate, alter, falsify -- (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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