Definition of counterfeit

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Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.

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Disguise :: Disguise (n.) Artificial language or manner assumed for deception; false appearance; counterfeit semblance or show.
Falsify :: Falsify (a.) To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin..
Greenback :: Greenback (n.) One of the legal tender notes of the United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits..
Resemble :: Resemble (v. t.) To counterfeit; to imitate.
Real :: Real (a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger..
Brummagem :: Brummagem (a.) Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.
Utter :: Utter (a.) hence, to put in circulation, as money; to put off, as currency; to cause to pass in trade; -- often used, specifically, of the issue of counterfeit notes or coins, forged or fraudulent documents, and the like; as, to utter coin or bank notes..
Queer :: Queer (n.) Counterfeit money.
Sham :: Sham (a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight..
Falsifiable :: Falsifiable (a.) Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted..
Fool :: Fool (n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments..
Bogus :: Bogus (a.) Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit..
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions..
Mock :: Mock (a.) Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham..
Assimulate :: Assimulate (v. t.) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble.
Act :: Act (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
Mockish :: Mockish (a.) Mock; counterfeit; sham.
Counterfeiter :: Counterfeiter (n.) One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses.
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit..
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (adv.) Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin..
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