feign

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Middle English, from Old French feindre (to pretend), from Latin fingere (to form, shape, invent).

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

feign (third-person singular simple present feigns, present participle feigning, simple past and past participle feigned)

  1. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit.
    The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
  2. 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.
    He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
  3. To dissemble; to conceal.
    Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.

Translations [edit]

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  • Danish: foregive