Feign vs Delude - What's the difference?
feign | delude |
To make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.
To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
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To hide or conceal.
To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
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(obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.
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As verbs the difference between feign and delude
is that feign is to make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit while delude is to deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.feign
English
Verb
(en verb)- The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
- They feigned her signature on the cheque.
- He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
- 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.
- Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.
Synonyms
* (represent by a false appearance) front, put on airsdelude
English
Verb
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- To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
- It deludes thy search.
