dissemble

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (transitive) To disguise or conceal something.
  2. (transitive) To feign, dissimulate.
  3. (transitive) To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
  4. (intransitive) To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/dɪˈsɛmbəl/
Etimologie (Engels)

First attested in the beginning of the 15th century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English dissemblen, dissimblen, dissemelen, borrowed from Old French dessambler, dissembler, disembler, itself borrowed from Latin dissimulō and modified after sembler, semblance, etc. Doublet of dissimulate, dissimilate, and dissimule.

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