truthing

Verb

truth (third-person singular simple present truths, present participle truthing, simple past and past participle truthed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To assert as true; to declare; to speak truthfully.
   • Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven.c. 1636 John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble
2. To make exact; to correct for inaccuracy.
   • A concentrated region of the agricultural test area was intensively ground truthed, not only to identify the crop types, but equally important, also to begin to determine the parameters controlling the radar energy reflected from a crop type at a particular stage of growth.1974, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, page 226
3. (intransitive, nonstandard) To tell the truth.
   • You keep lying, when you oughta be truthin'1966, Nancy Sinatra, These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

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