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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.
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feign
c.1300, from O.Fr. feign-, pres. stem of feindre "pretend, shirk," from L. fingere "devise, fabricate" (see fiction). Related: Feigned; feigning.
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