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Forged vs Feigned - What's the difference?

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Forged is a related term of feigned.


As adjectives the difference between forged and feigned

is that forged is fake (as documents) while feigned is being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.

As verbs the difference between forged and feigned

is that forged is to force forward against opposition while feigned is (feign).

forged

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Fake (as documents).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
  • , author=Brian Hayes , title=Father of Fractals , volume=101, issue=1, page=62 , magazine= citation , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}
    Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
  • Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
  • The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.

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    Verb

    (head)
  • To force forward against opposition.
  • He forged forward against the current, even as it tried to sweep him down river.

    feigned

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being a pretense, a counterfeit, or something false or fraudulent.
  • 1841' ''"I have passed my word," said Jowl with '''feigned reluctance, "and I'll keep it. When does this match come off? I wish it was over. -- To-night?"'' — Charles Dickens, ''The Old Curiosity Shop , Chapter 9.

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (feign)
  • Anagrams

    * feeding