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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: feign (0.00956 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to feign.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: feign feign v 1: make believe with the intent to deceive; “He feigned that he was ill”; “He shammed a headache” [syn: sham, pretend, affect, dissemble] 2: make a pretence of; “She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger”; “he feigned sleep” [syn: simulate, assume, sham]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Feign Feign \Feign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feigned; p. pr. & vb. n. Feigning.] [OE. feinen, F. feindre (p. pr. feignant), fr. L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure,and E. dough. See Dough, and cf. Figure, Faint, Effigy, Fiction.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. --Neh. vi. 8. [1913 Webster] The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To dissemble; to conceal. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

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