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feign

[ feyn ]

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)

  1. to make believe; pretend:

    She's only feigning, she isn't really ill.

feign

/ feɪn /

verb

  1. to put on a show of (a quality or emotion); pretend

    to feign innocence

  2. tr to make up; invent

    to feign an excuse

  3. tr to copy; imitate

    to feign someone's laugh

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈfeigningly, adverb
  • ˈfeigner, noun
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Other Words From

  • feign·er noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of feign1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English fei(g)nen, from Old French feign-, present stem of faindre, feindre, from Latin fingere “to feign, invent, shape”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of feign1

C13: from Old French feindre to pretend, from Latin fingere to form, shape, invent
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Synonym Study

See pretend.

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