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Перевод: feign

[глагол]
притворяться; симулировать; придумывать; выдумывать

Тезаурус:

1. Some poets feign their wounds and scars;
2. My attitude to my mother was similar: I would feign amazement at her ignorance of the intricacies of the Punic Wars, while at the same time snobbishly correcting her pronunciation or her misapprehensions of social niceties.
3. "Come on now, Ali," she complains, knowing he likes to feign death.
4. It's also necessary to feign surprise when you notice that global culture falls like rain into deepest jungle or wildest steppe.
5. "Munchausen's syndrome" is the name given to attention-seeking patients who feign illness or deliberately fabricate symptoms.
6. At any rate, when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus, I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed, willing my eyes to stay shut, but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end, and I had to open my eyes and listen.
7. You see, some of the beggars feign injury.
8. Feeling bored at being cooped up in the desert, he decided to feign temporary illness.
9. And it's just wonderful he has to feign emotions, he has to be coached on emotions.
10. Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;
11. The board of appeal - Norfolk's Ray Kiddell (chairman), Frank Patterson, of Durham, and John Reames (Lincoln) - said: "Having accepted the finding of the original Commission that contact may well have occurred between Mr Durie and the opposing player, (it was) concluded that Mr Durie did not feign an injury."
12. Maybe he could feign amnesia, or just cut the reading and head for home.
13. There were days when the world was shrouded in a mist and I would feign headaches and period pains to get me out of awkward situations such as reading in class.