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Feign

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Verb

1. affect, dissemble, feign, pretend, sham

make believe with the intent to deceive

Example Sentences:
'He feigned that he was ill'
'He shammed a headache'

2. assume, feign, sham, simulate

make a pretence of

Example Sentences:
'She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger'
'he feigned sleep'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Feign

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verb
1. 
to put on a show of (a quality or emotion); pretend
to feign innocence
2. (transitive)
to make up; invent
to feign an excuse
3. (transitive)
to copy; imitate
to feign someone's laugh

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Feign

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verb transitive
1.  Obsolete
to form; shape
2. 
to make up (a story, excuse, etc.); invent; fabricate
3. 
to make a false show of; pretend; imitate; simulate
4.  Archaic
to imagine
verb intransitive
5. 
to pretend; dissemble

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Feign

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v. feigned, feign·ing, feigns
v.tr.
1.
a. To give a false appearance of: feign sleep.
b. To represent falsely; pretend to: feign authorship of a novel.
2. To imitate so as to deceive: feign another's voice.
3. To fabricate: feigned an excuse.
4. Archaic To invent or imagine.
v.intr.
To pretend; dissemble.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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