Stimulate vs Feign - What's the difference?
stimulate | feign |
To encourage into action.
To arouse an organism to functional activity.
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.
As verbs the difference between stimulate and feign
is that stimulate is to encourage into action while feign is to make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.stimulate
English
Verb
(stimulat)Synonyms
* (encourage) encourage, induce, provoke * (arouse) animate, arouse, energize, energise, excite, perk upAntonyms
* (arouse) de-energize, sedate, stifleAnagrams
* * ----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.