- to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
- to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse.
- to imitate deceptively: to feign another's voice.
- to make believe; pretend: She's only feigning, she isn't really ill.
- to put on a show of (a quality or emotion); pretend
- to make up; invent
- to copy; imitate
