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)
- To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit.
- The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
- 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.
- To dissemble; to conceal.
- Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.
Translations [edit]
to represent by a false appearance of
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to give a mental existence to something
to dissemble
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- Danish: foregive
