Malinger

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  • intransitive verb. To feign illness or other incapacity in order to avoid duty or work.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To feign illness; sham sickness in order to avoid duty; counterfeit disease.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work or obligation.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
    • Word Usage
    ""malinger" with such intensity of purpose, that I feared lest he would kill himself to spite us."
    Form
    malingered  malingering  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fiddle  goldbrick  shirk  shrink from  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abandon  cut  dodge  dog it  duck  
    verb-form
    malingered  malingering  malingers  
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