Meaning of FEIGN
| Pronunciation: | | feyn
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- [v] make believe; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
- [v] make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
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| | Synonyms: | | affect, assume, dissemble, pretend, sham, sham, simulate |
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| | See Also: | | act, belie, bull, bullshit, dissemble, fake, feint, misrepresent, mouth, play, play possum, pretend, take a dive | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Feign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Feigned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Feigning}.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr.
L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure,and E. dough. See
{Dough}, and cf. {Figure}, {Faint}, {Effigy}, {Fiction}.]
1. To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or
actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form
and relate as if true.
There are no such things done as thou sayest, but
thou feignest them out of thine own heart. --Neh.
vi. 8.
The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones,
and floods. --Shak.
2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to
counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. --Shak.
3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 like, make out like, overact, play, play a part, play a scene, play possum, playact, pretend, profess, put on, put on airs, sham, simulate, tug the heartstrings, wear |
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