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feign 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
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feigned, past participle; feigned, past tense; feigning, present participle; feigns, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury)
    • - she feigned nervousness
  2. Invent (a story or excuse)

  3. Indulge in pretense

  1. make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
  2. simulate: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
  3. not genuine; "feigned sympathy"
  4. (feigning) pretense: pretending with intention to deceive
  5. Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, and subterfuge are acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, sleight of hand. It can employ distraction, camouflage or concealment. ...
  6. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; To give a mental existence to something that is not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; to pretend; to form and relate as if true; To dissemble; to conceal
  7. (FEIGNED) issue, pract. An issue brought by consent of the parties, or the direction of a court of equity, or such courts as possess equitable powers, to determine before a jury some disputed matter of fact, which the court has not the power or is unwilling to decide. 3 Bl. Com. 452; Bouv. Inst. ...
  8. (feigned) Not genuine or real. “Baba nodded and gave a thin smile that conveyed little more than feigned interest.” (31)
  9. fingir; simular; inventar; aparentar; disimular
  10. (v) - to pretend, act, deceive
  11. Pretend or to fake something.
  12. to pretend, feigned illness