feign
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feign
- /feɪn/
Sounds like fane, foehn, fain · Rhymes with -eɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English feynen, feinen, borrowed from Old French feindre (“to pretend”), from Latin fingere (“to form, shape, invent”). Compare French feignant (present participle of feindre, literally “feigning”). Also compare feint, figment and fiction.
verb feigns · feigning · feigned
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To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
Similar: front, put on airs
- To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something. He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
- To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint. Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
Similar: deceive
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verb
Similar: deceive
Translations
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verb to make a false show
| Español | aparentar, hacer el papel, hacer papel |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 見せ掛ける misekakeru, 装う yosoou |
| 中文 | 假裝 /假装 jiǎzhuāng |
| हिन्दी | स्वाँग svāṅg |
| Português | fingir, dissimular, aparentar |
| Français | feindre |
| Deutsch | vorgeben, vortäuschen, vormachen, fingieren |
| Italiano | fingere, simulare |
| Ελληνικά | προσποιούμαι prospoioúmai |
| Русский | притворя́ться pritvorjátʹsja, прики́дываться prikídyvatʹsja, симули́ровать simulírovatʹ, подделывать poddelyvatʹ |
| العربية | تَظَاهَرَ taẓāhara, اِخْتَلَقَ iḵtalaqa, تَصَنَّعَ taṣannaʕa |
verb to hide, conceal, or dissemble
| Português | omitir |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | verheimlichen, verbergen |
| Italiano | dissimulare, bluffare, mascherare, nascondere |
| Русский | скрыва́ть skryvátʹ, пря́тать prjátatʹ |
| العربية | وَرَّى warrā |
verb to imagine, to invent, to pretend; to give a mental existence to something
| हिन्दी | स्वाँग svāṅg |
|---|---|
| Português | inventar, imaginar |
| Deutsch | ausdenken |
| Italiano | immaginarsi, inventarsi |
| Русский | выду́мывать vydúmyvatʹ |
| العربية | يَزْعُم yazʕum, تَخَيَّل taḵayyal |
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