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falsify

verb/ˈfɔːlsɪfaɪ/

B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

To alter a document or record fraudulently so as to deceive.

The auditor found that invoices had been falsified to conceal the missing funds.

Similar: doctor, forge, fabricate

Topic: Evidence & procedure in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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