• FAYN • verb
1 : to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression 2 : to assert as if true : pretend
[Ro] a pretinde (că), a inventa (o scuză), a simula (că), a născoci (o scuză)
Example sentence:
Shortly after her mom told her that she would have to go to the doctor’s, Kim confessed that she was only feigning illness because she forgot to study for a test.
În scurt timp după ce mama i-a spus că trebuie să meargă la medic, Kim a mărturisit că ea simula boala, deoarece a uitat să se pregătească pentru examen.
Feign is all about faking it, but that hasn’t always been so. In one of its earliest senses, feign meant to fashion, form, or shape. That meaning is true to the Latin ancestor: the verb fingere, which also means to shape. The current senses of feign still retain the essence of the Latin source, since to feign something, such as surprise or an illness, requires one to fashion an impression or shape an image.
