malinger
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
malinger (malingers, present participle malingering; past and past participle malingered)
- (ambitransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
- Hypernyms: goldbrick, shirk
- It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
- 1984, The Psychiatric Quarterly, Volume 56 ↗
- It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition.
- (ambitransitive) To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
- German: simulieren
- Portuguese: fingir estar doente
- Russian: притворя́ться больно́й
- Spanish: hacer la zanguanga
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