What's the difference between falsify and reprove?

Falsify


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But most instances are more mundane: the majority of fraud cases in recent years have emerged from scientists either falsifying images – deliberately mislabelling scans and micrographs – or fabricating or altering their recorded data.
  • (2) "To falsify returns once is once too many – to falsify 252 times represents a pattern of behaviour which should lead to a full review," Dorrell said.
  • (3) Then there were attempts to falsify votes," she said.
  • (4) Unusual features included the illness chosen, the father as the parent falsifying illness, his failure to pursue unnecessary investigations and treatment, and the ease with which he relinquished the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis.
  • (5) But retweet if you remember destabilizing a region based on falsified claims that everyone in America needed to be afraid of a mushroom cloud, fave if you don’t understand causation.
  • (6) Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed were accused of aiding Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood, and of falsifying news reports in order to undermine Egyptian national security.
  • (7) These models generate falsifiable predictions about the pattern of risk in relatives of affected individuals.
  • (8) Wood was brought before the employment tribunal after a third volunteer told PHE, the body that designed the screening process, that Wood had falsified Cafferkey’s temperature on the form she had to fill out on arrival at Heathrow.
  • (9) Last week, immigration minister Jason Kenney announced that 3,100 people would have their Canadian citizenship revoked for hiring immigration consultants to falsify their documents.
  • (10) We conclude that global retests should be preferred to selective ones so that the perimetric results are not falsified.
  • (11) In the runup to the election, analysts predicted that falsifying votes cast from home (citizens can request electoral workers to make home visits) would be the most likely method of cheating, but the percentage of such votes was reportedly small.
  • (12) In June 2012, the month that Butt was sentenced to 15 years in jail, the DSI smashed another major counterfeiting syndicate, this one accused of issuing some 3,000 falsified passports and visas over the five years of its existence, two of them to Iranians convicted of carrying out a series of botched bomb attacks in Bangkok in February 2012, supposedly aimed at Israeli diplomats .
  • (13) Educators in health-related fields are particularly sensitive to academic misconduct because undergraduate students who falsify academic work in such fields can go on to endanger the health and well being of the very people they are meant to assist.
  • (14) But news that two of the passengers on the flight were travelling on passports stolen in Thailand – one belonging to Italian Luigi Maraldi, who lost it last August when he left it as collateral for a motorbike rented in Phuket, and the other to Austrian Christian Kozel, who reported his lost in the same area some 18 months earlier – has focused attention on the country's booming trade in stolen and falsified passports.
  • (15) Two experiments on whispered and mouthed lists, with or without simultaneous broadband noise, falsified expectations derived from the theory of precategorical acoustic storage.
  • (16) They say this falsifies that Australopithecus sediba is the ancestor of Homo.
  • (17) Doctors were allegedly recorded admitting they were prepared to falsify paperwork to arrange the illegal abortions.
  • (18) Preoperative application of a bromocriptine therapy may falsify the results too.
  • (19) Illicit-drug users may attempt to falsify results by in vitro adulteration of specimens.
  • (20) Thinktank malefactors reap great sums from the aggrieved heartland or from industries looking to build a canon of falsified data, and Congress and the attendant lobbying is a helluva racket.

Reprove


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To convince.
  • (v. t.) To disprove; to refute.
  • (v. t.) To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; to censure.
  • (v. t.) To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Ministry is reproved for not following the Norwegian Parliament's legislative guidelines regarding the assurance of personal freedom of conscience for medical personnel to refuse to assist in the performance of abortions for religious, ethical, or moral reasons.
  • (2) Their husbands were warned not to go to prostitutes, carriers of STDs; yet the prostitutes were reproved, not the men.
  • (3) As trusts plunge deeper into debt, they have also been reproved by their regulator for the rising pay bill Ask her about her EU nurses and the way she brims with extravagant praise betrays her anxiety following the referendum: “They make a huge contribution with very strong skills that lift the standard of our own.
  • (4) Yet, as trusts plunge deeper into debt, they have also been reproved by their regulator, NHS Improvement, for the rising pay bill.
  • (5) I recall him reproving me when I disparaged one of his ultra-Blairite cabinet colleagues.
  • (6) The physician was officially reproved by the Aachen government for having trespassed his authority in obtaining the twin monster.