falsen

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English

Etymology

From false +‎ -en.

Verb

falsen (third-person singular simple present falsens, present participle falsening, simple past and past participle falsened)

  1. (transitive) To make false; falsify
    • 1997, Donald David Stone, Communications with the Future: Matthew Arnold in Dialogue, page 31:
      In a modern time, we are living with a system of classes so intense, a society of such unnatural complication, that the whole action of our mind is hampered and falsened by it.
    • 2011, Gabriella West, The Leaving:
      That was one thing that I couldn't bear. Much better if he just hated queers. Without even trying to justify it. But he obviously had to, and that falsened his position.
    • 2014, Peter G. Beidler, The Lives of the Miller's Tale, page 155:
      In fact, just as his master Chaucer did before him, Milburn “falsened” his material in some productive ways.

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

falsen

  1. inflection of falsar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Spanish

Verb

falsen

  1. inflection of falsar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative
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