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Thesaurus: feign

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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  1. 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.
  2. v. t. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.
  3. v. t. To dissemble; to conceal.
  4. v. make believe with the intent to deceive
  5. v. make a pretence of
  6. v:100 v. make believe with the intent to deceive