feign
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /feɪn/
feign (feigns, present participle feigning; past and past participle feigned)
- To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (novel, Chapter 2:
- She had not been much of a dissembler, until now her loneliness taught her to feign.
- The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
- They feigned her signature on the cheque.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (novel, Chapter 2:
- To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
- He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
- To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)
- Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)
- To hide or conceal.
- Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.
- (represent by a false appearance) front, put on airs
- See Thesaurus:deceive
- French: feindre
- German: vorgeben, vortäuschen, vormachen, fingieren
- Italian: fingere, simulare
- Portuguese: fingir, dissimular, aparentar
- Russian: притворя́ться
- Spanish: fingir
- German: ausdenken
- Italian: immaginarsi, inventarsi
- Portuguese: inventar, imaginar
- Russian: выду́мывать
- Spanish: inventar, imaginar
- German: verheimlichen, verbergen
- Italian: dissimulare, bluffare, mascherare, nascondere
- Portuguese: omitir
- Russian: скрыва́ть
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