<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.</li><li>to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse.</li><li>to imitate deceptively: to feign another's voice.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to make believe; pretend: She's only feigning, she isn't really ill.</li></ul>