intransitive. To remain concealed, to escape notice; to hide or suppress one's thoughts or feelings. Also (occasionally) transitive in Old…

transitive. To cheat, deceive, delude.

transitive. To form, fashion, figure, give an external appearance to; esp. (in later use) to colour. †In early use sometimes, To fashion falsely…

transitive. To assert or maintain fictitiously; to allege, make out, pretend. Const. †with simple object or complement (rare), with object and infin…

transitive. To make unlike or dissimilar to; to cause not to resemble. Chiefly in past participle. Cf. liken, v. 3.

To put on (with intent to deceive) the appearance or semblance of; to feign, pretend, simulate. with simple object (a feeling, quality, etc.).

transitive. To lay claim to or profess to have (a quality, state, etc.). Now only: to lay false claim to, affect, feign, or put on (a quality…

with subordinate clause or infinitive phr. = dissemble, v.1 5b.

transitive. To simulate, feign; = dissemble, v.1 5.

intransitive and transitive. To simulate or feign.

transitive. To simulate, feign; absol. to practise simulation.

To put on (with intent to deceive) the appearance or semblance of; to feign, pretend, simulate. with object clause or infinitive. Obsolete.

transitive. To put on a feigned or false appearance of; to feign, pretend, simulate. Obsolete.

To feign, pretend. transitive. With object and infinitive, object clause, or object and complement. Obsolete.

transitive. ‘To make a show of’ (Johnson), pretend.

transitive. To simulate, make a pretence of. Obsolete.

To take to oneself in appearance only, to pretend to possess; to pretend, simulate, feign.

transitive. colloquial. To affect, feign, pretend. Also with clause as object. Cf. sense 2a(b), and put-on, adj. 1.

To simulate, feign, or counterfeit.

transitive. To feign, counterfeit, or act (a quality, emotion, etc.); to make pretence of (a state of affairs). Obsolete.

transitive. With clause as object. To pretend, to affect. Obsolete.

transitive. To assume falsely the appearance or signs of (anything); to feign, pretend, counterfeit, imitate; to profess or suggest (anything)…

esp. To fabricate, frame, invent (a false or imaginary story, lie, etc.); to devise (evil). Also, to pretend (something) to have happened, to fable.

transitive. To be or to produce a deceptive imitation of; †to pretend falsely to be (a person of a certain rank or character). †to sham one's glass…

transitive. To feign or simulate (sleep, etc.). Also with it. rare.

transitive. To initiate or put on (behaviour, an action, a performance, etc.), especially artificially; to make an effort to display (charm…

Originally U.S. transitive. To pretend that one feels (an emotion), suffers from (a condition), or experiences (a sensation); to feign or simulate.