fakenoun [ C ]
uk/feɪk/us/feɪk/C2 an object that is made to look real or valuable in order to deceive people:
C2 someone who is not what or who they claim to be:
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- impostor
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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fakeadjective
uk/feɪk/us/feɪk/C1 not real, but made to look or seem real:
disapproving showing or pretending to feel emotions that are not sincere:
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- impostor
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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fakeverb
uk/feɪk/us/feɪk/fake verb (FEELING/ILLNESS)
C2 [ I or T ] to pretend that you have a feeling or illness:
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- impostor
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- pose as sb
- professed
- purport
- quack
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fake verb (OBJECT)
C2 [ T ] to make an object look real or valuable in order to deceive people:
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Forgery
- bootleg
- counterfeit
- forge
- forgery
- hijack
- knock-off
- piracy
- pirate
- plagiarize
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