Feign

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To give a false appearance of.
  • intransitive verb. To represent falsely; pretend to.
  • intransitive verb. To imitate so as to deceive.
  • intransitive verb. To fabricate.
  • intransitive verb. To invent or imagine.
  • intransitive verb. To pretend; dissemble.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Dissimulation; deception; falsehood.
  • To invent or imagine; utter, relate, or represent falsely or deceitfully.
  • To make a false appearance of; counterfeit; simulate; pretend: as, to feign death.
  • To dissemble; disguise; conceal.
  • Reflexively, to show a sudden weakness; become weak or faint.
  • Synonyms To affect, simulate, profess.
  • To make believe; practise dissimulation or false representation; dissemble.
  • To sing with a low voice.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
  • transitive verb. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit.
  • transitive verb. To dissemble; to conceal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit.
  • verb. To give a mental existence to something that is not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
  • verb. To dissemble; to conceal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make a pretence of
  • verb. make believe with the intent to deceive
  • Word Usage
    "But there is a certain romantic senseless kind of love, such as poets sometimes celebrate, and men and women feign, which is a legitimate target for ridicule."
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    act  act a part  affect  assume  bluff  
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    feigned  feigning  feigns