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feign

–verb (used with object)

1.	to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.

2.	to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse.

3.	to imitate deceptively: to feign another's voice.

–verb (used without object)

4.	to make believe; pretend: She's only feigning, she isn't really ill.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME fei(g)nen < OF feign-, present s. of feindre < L fingere to shape, invent, feign

]

—Related forms

feigner, noun

feign·ing·ly, adverb

—Synonyms 4. See pretend.

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feign Audio Help   (fān) Pronunciation Key
v.   feigned, feign·ing, feigns

v.   tr.

1. To give a false appearance of: feign sleep.
2. To represent falsely; pretend to: feign authorship of a novel.
To imitate so as to deceive: feign another's voice.
To fabricate: feigned an excuse.
Archaic To invent or imagine.

v. intr.
To pretend; dissemble.

[Middle English feinen, from Old French feindre, from Latin fingere, to shape, form; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
feign

1300, from O.Fr. feign-, pres. stem of feindre "pretend, shirk," from L. fingere "devise, fabricate," originally "to shape, invent, to form," from PIE base *dheigh- "to form, shape."

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feign
verb
1.	make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
2.	make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: simulate]

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
feign [fein] verb

to pretend to feel
Example: He feigned illness.

Arabic:	يَدَّعي، يَتَظاهَر أنَّه يَشْعُر
Chinese (Simplified):	假装
Chinese (Traditional):	假裝
Czech:	předstírat
Danish:	foregive; simulere
Dutch:	veinzen
Estonian:	teesklema
Finnish:	teeskennellä
French:	faire semblant (de)
German:	heucheln
Greek:	προσποιούμαι, προφασίζομαι
Hungarian:	színlel
Icelandic:	gera sér upp, láta líta út fyrir
Indonesian:	berpura-pura
Italian:	fingere, simulare

Japanese:	～のふりをする
Korean:	가장하다
Latvian:	izlikties; simulēt
Lithuanian:	apsimesti
Norwegian:	late som om, simulere, hykle
Polish:	symulować
Portuguese (Brazil):	fingir
Portuguese (Portugal):	fingir
Romanian:	a simula
Russian:	притворяться
Slovak:	predstierať
Slovenian:	hliniti
Spanish:	fingir
Swedish:	låtsa, simulera
Turkish:	numara, *yalandan yapmak

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Feign

Dough\, n. [OE. dagh, dogh, dow, AS. d[=a]h; akin to D. deeg, G. teig, Icel. deig, Sw. deg, Dan. deig, Goth. daigs; also, to Goth. deigan to knead, L. fingere to form, shape, Skr. dih to smear; cf. Gr. ? wall, ? to touch, handle. ?. Cf. Feign, Figure, Dairy, Duff.]

1. Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

2. Anything of the consistency of such paste.

To have one's cake dough. See under Cake.

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