feign
About 0.36 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
- verb To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
- verb To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.
Similar words
pretend sham dissemble affect assume simulate counterfeit play-act fake misappear
Often followed by
a to that ignorance an the death illness sleep
Word family
feigned feigner feigners feigning feigns
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