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verb (v)

• make believe with the intent to deceive(verb.communication)

  Example:
  He feigned that he was ill.
  

  Synonym:
  affect, dissemble, pretend, sham
  

  source: wordnet30
• make a pretence of(verb.creation)

  Example:
  He feigned sleep.
  

  Synonym:
  assume, sham, simulate
  

  source: wordnet30
• To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.(verb)

  source: webster1913