Feign

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To give a false appearance of: feign sleep.
  • v. To represent falsely; pretend to: feign authorship of a novel.
  • v. To imitate so as to deceive: feign another's voice.
  • v. To fabricate: feigned an excuse.
  • v. Archaic To invent or imagine.
  • verb-intransitive. To pretend; dissemble.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To dissemble; to conceal.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • v. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit.
  • v. To dissemble; to conceal.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • n. Dissimulation; deception; falsehood.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make a pretence of
  • v. make believe with the intent to deceive
  • Verb Form
    feigned    feigning    feigns   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pretend    counterfeit    dissemble    conceal   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alane    Aquitaine    Ayn    Bahrain    Biscayne    Blaine    Cain    Chain    Champagne    Champaign   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mock    unfeigned    undisguised    inexpressible    utmost    utter    momentary    inward    apparent    abject