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feign 音标拼音: [f'en] vt. 假装,装作
vi. 作假 假装,装作作假 feign v 1: make believe with the intent to deceive; " He feigned that he was ill"; " He shammed a headache" [ synonym: { feign}, { sham}, { pretend}, { affect}, { dissemble}] 2: make a pretence of; " She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; " he feigned sleep" [ synonym: { simulate}, { assume}, { sham}, { feign}] Feign \ Feign\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Feigned}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Feigning}.] [ OE. feinen, F. feindre ( p. pr. feignant), fr. L. fingere; akin to L. figura figure, and E. dough. See { Dough}, and cf. { Figure}, { Faint}, { Effigy}, { Fiction}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. -- Neh. vi. 8. [ 1913 Webster] The poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To dissemble; to conceal. [ Obs.] -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 36 Moby Thesaurus words for " feign": act, act a part, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit, cover up, dissemble, dissimulate, do a bit, dramatize, fake, four- flush, gammon, histrionize, let on, let on like, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like, make out like, overact, play, play a part, play a scene, play possum, playact, pretend, profess, put on, put on airs, sham, simulate, tug the heartstrings, wear
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