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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search
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feign
verb
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 represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit.
The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
To dissemble; to conceal.
Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.
Translations:
German: vorgeben, vortí¤uschen
Italian: fingere
(it)
Spanish: fingir
(es)
Etymology:
feindre
to pretend, from
fingere
to form, shape, invent.
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