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Feign vs Assimulate - What's the difference?

feign | assimulate |

As verbs the difference between feign and assimulate

is that feign is to make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit while assimulate is to assimilate.

feign

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.
    • The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
    They feigned her signature on the cheque.
  • To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
    • He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
  • To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland'' (in ''The Guardian , 14 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/aug/14/england-scotland-international-friendly]
    • Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
  • To hide or conceal.
    • Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.

    Synonyms

    * (represent by a false appearance) front, put on airs

    assimulate

    English

    Verb

    (assimulat)
  • (obsolete) To assimilate.
  • * 1857 , Andrew Jackson Davis, The great harmonia: Volume 4 (page 54)
    • You will remember the exact analogy — that trees grow by attracting and assimulating to themselves the terrestrial atmosphere which is thrown from all the planets
  • (obsolete) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate.
    • (Blount)
    (Webster 1913) ----