feign
Significado (Inglês)
- To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate.
- To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something.
- To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint.
Conceitos
Sinônimos
make as if
find an excuse
pretend to do good
pretend to be good
Traduções
fingir
vortäuschen
fingere
feindre
veinzenFreqüência
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/feɪn/
Etimologia (Inglês)
In summary
From Middle English feynen, feinen, borrowed from Old French feindre (“to pretend”), from Latin fingere (“to form, shape, invent”). Compare French feignant (present participle of feindre, literally “feigning”). Also compare feint and fiction.
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