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Falschmeldung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • hoax noun Something made up on purpose to trick or deceive people.

Senses

Falschmeldung is used for these senses in English:

  • false alarm (archaic, idiomatic) A person who pretends to be more accomplished or a thing that seems to be of higher quality than is later found to be the case.
  • false positive A result of a test that shows as present something that is absent.
  • hoax Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

hoax — full definition

  1. noun Something made up on purpose to trick or deceive people.
  2. verb To trick someone into believing something false.

Related German words