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feign (fān)

[Middle English feinen, from Old French feindre, from Latin fingere, to shape, form.]

verb: feigned, feign·ing, feigns. 

transitive verb 

    1. To give a false appearance of: feign sleep.
    2. To represent falsely; pretend to: feign authorship of a novel.
  2. To imitate so as to deceive: feign another's voice.
  3. To fabricate: feigned an excuse.
  4. Archaic To invent or imagine.

intransitive verb 

To pretend; dissemble.