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v. To make a copy of, usually with the intent to defraud; forge: counterfeits money.

v. To make a pretense of; feign: counterfeited interest in the story.

verb-intransitive. To carry on a deception; dissemble.

verb-intransitive. To make fraudulent copies of something valuable.

adj. Made in imitation of what is genuine with the intent to defraud: a counterfeit dollar bill.

adj. Simulated; feigned: a counterfeit illness.

n. A fraudulent imitation or facsimile.

adj. False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.

adj. Inauthentic

n. A non-genuine article; a fake.

n. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.

v. To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.

v. To produce a faithful copy of.

v. To feign.

v. Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.

adj. Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

adj. Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original.

adj. Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical.

n. That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.

n. That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true.

n. One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.

v. To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic.

v. To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge

verb-intransitive. To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

verb-intransitive. To make counterfeits.

Made in semblance or imitation of an original; imitated; copied; factitious.

Specifically, made in imitation of an original, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy as genuine or original; forged; spurious: as, counterfeit coin; a counterfeit bond or deed; a counterfeit bill of exchange.

Feigned; simulated; false; hypocritical: as, a counterfeit friend.

Counterfeiting; dissembling; cheating.

Deformed; unnatural.

n. An imitation; a copy; something made in imitation of or strongly resembling another; rarely, a likeness; a portrait; an image.

n. Specifically, an imitation or copy designed to pass as an original.

n. One who feigns or simulates; a counterfeiter; an impostor.

To make a semblance of; make or be a copy of; copy; imitate; resemble; be like.

Specifically, to make a copy of without authority or right, and with a view to deceive or defraud by passing the copy as original or genuine; forge: as, to counterfeit coin, bank-notes, a seal, a bond, a deed or other instrument in writing, the handwriting or signature of another, etc.

To feign; make a pretense of; simulate; pretend; put on a semblance of: as, to counterfeit piety.

To make in imitation, or as a counterpart of something else.

To feign or pretend to be (what one is not).

Synonyms Mimic, Ape, etc. (see imitate), forge, simulate, sham, feign.

To feign; dissemble; carry on a fiction or deception.

adj. not genuine; imitating something superior

v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive

n. a copy that is represented as the original

"You can see from this video that the counterfeit is almost as dull as the real thing; an astonishing achievement."

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