feign
21feign — [[t]fe͟ɪn[/t]] feigns, feigning, feigned VERB If someone feigns a particular feeling, attitude, or physical condition, they try to make other people think that they have it or are experiencing it, although this is not true. [FORMAL] [V n] One… …
22feign — verb pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury). Origin ME: from OFr. feign , stem of feindre, from L. fingere mould, contrive ; cf. fiction and figment …
23feign — [13] Feign is first cousin to faint. It comes from the present stem of Old French faindre or feindre ‘pretend, shirk’, whose past participle gave English faint. This in turn came from Latin fingere ‘make, shape’, which also gave English effigy,… …
24feign´ed|ly — feigned «faynd», adjective. 1. pretended; sham: »Mortal enemies…came every day to pay their feigned civilities (Macaulay). 2. Archaic. fictitiously invented; related in fiction: »The phoenix is a feigned bird. – …
25feign´ing|ly — feign «fayn», transitive verb. 1. to put on a false appearance of; make believe; pretend: »Some animals feign death when in danger. SYNONYM(S): assume, affect, simulate, sham. 2. to make up to deceive; invent falsely: »to feign an excuse …
26feign — verb /feɪn/ a) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit. The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam. b) To give a mental existence to something that is not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; to pretend; to form …
27feign — Synonyms and related words: act, act a part, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, cover up, dissemble, dissimulate, do a bit, dramatize, fake, four flush, gammon, histrionize, let on, let on like, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make… …
28feign — v. (formal) (L) he feigned that he was sick * * * [feɪn] (formal) (L) he feigned that he was sick …
29feign — fain, fane …
30feign — v. a. == pretend. RG. 421 == form. 3 s. pres. ‘feinyhes.’ Ps. xciii. 9, 20. Lat. fingere …
