to make up (a story, excuse, etc.); invent; fabricate ... to make a false show of; pretend; imitate; simulate ... to pretend; dissemble...
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Feign - Definition of Feign at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Feign. Look it up now! ... Archaic To invent or imagine. ... stem of feindre "pretend, shirk," from L. fingere "devise, fabricate," originally "to shape, invent, to form," from PIE base *dheigh- "to form, shape."
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English Alphabet History question: Spell the word fain meaning invent fabricate or to pretend? You are probably looking for feign. ... How do you do you spell fain? What mean to ivent fabricate pretend? What worm means to invent fabricate pretend?
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How do you spell 'fain' it means to invent or fabricate ... was the middle finger really invented at againcourt, fain to invent fabricate pretend, who invented middle finger, meaning of the middle finger...
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2. invent something: to make up or fabricate something; ... [13th century. < French feign-, present stem of feindre "pretend, shirk" < Latin fingere "fabricate, form"]
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What happened in Acts, chapter one and two? ... Contrary to what some people are taught, there were not 120 men, women, and children speaking in tongues all at the same time, nor were the Apostles or anyone else ... pretend; to sham; (b) To represent falsely; pretend to: 2 to invent; make up; fabricate: to pretend.
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1 (a) To give false appearance of; pretend; to sham; (b) To represent falsely; pretend to: 2 to invent; make up; fabricate: to pretend. (The mockers accused them of being drunk out of scorn, as though the Apostles had impairment of their mental faculties.)
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The verb ‘to make up’ means to beautify, to dress up, to cover up, to pretend, to fabricate, to invent, to compensate (e.g., to make up for a deficit), to reconcile (e.g., to make up after an argument), to catch up (e.g., to make up an exam one has missed).  The noun ‘make-up’  refers to cosmetics and...
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Invent A New Product; ... concoct, conjure up, create out of thin air, equivocate, fake, falsify, feign, fib, forge, lie, make believe, make up, misrepresent, misstate, pretend, ... author, bang out, cast, clef, coin a phrase, comp, conceive, contrive, cook up, design, devise, discover, draw up, dream up, fabricate, forge,
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