Definition of feign

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Feign (v. t.) 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..

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Misfeign :: Misfeign (v. i.) To feign with an evil design.
Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..
Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..
Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Sham :: Sham (a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight..
Feint :: Feint (a.) Feigned; counterfeit.
Dissemble :: Dissemble (v. t.) To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
Dissemble :: Dissemble (v. t.) To put on the semblance of; to make pretense of; to simulate; to feign.
Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..
Unfeigned :: Unfeigned (a.) Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; genuine; as, unfeigned piety; unfeigned love to man..
Fiction :: Fiction (n.) The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind..
False :: False (a.) To feign; to pretend to make.
Abram-man :: Abram-man (n.) One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms..
Assimulate :: Assimulate (v. t.) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble.
Fictive :: Fictive (a.) Feigned; counterfeit.
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship..
Sham :: Sham (v. i.) To make false pretenses; to deceive; to feign; to impose.
Lugubrious :: Lugubrious (a.) Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look..
Fictitious :: Fictitious (a.) Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame..
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