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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024feign /feɪn/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object]- to pretend;
put on an appearance of:to feign sickness.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024feign (fān),USA pronunciation v.t. - to represent fictitiously;
put on an appearance of:to feign sickness. - to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse.
- to imitate deceptively:to feign another's voice.
v.i. - to make believe;
pretend:She's only feigning, she isn't really ill.
- Latin fingere to shape, invent, feign
- Old French feign-, present stem of feindre
- Middle English fei(g)nen 1250–1300
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See pretend.
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