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feign
verb 
  1. 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.
  1. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit.
The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
  1. 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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