falsear

v. falsify, forge; distort, garble; adulterate

v. gerrymander, misrepresent; wrench

= falsify, fake, counterfeit.
Ex: These multipliers are low in comparison with those applied by commercial publishers, though the comparison is substantially falsified by the high costs for the institutions of originating publications in a number of parallel language versions.
Ex: Both the researcher and the student practice of 'fudging' involves faking, fabricating, or stealing data.
Ex: While the U.S. Treasury has taken steps to make it harder to counterfeit American currency, it's still apparently easy to make up fake money orders.