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feign



Pronunciation: (fān), [key]
—v.t.
1. to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
2. to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse.
3. to imitate deceptively: to feign another's voice.

—v.i.
to make believe; pretend: She's only feigning, she isn't really ill.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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