Feign vs Imitate - What's the difference?
feign | imitate |
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 follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.
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To copy.
As verbs the difference between feign and imitate
is that feign is to make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit while imitate is to follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.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 airsimitate
English
Verb
(imitat)- Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music.
