fake
verb/feɪk/
/feɪk/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they fake | /feɪk/ /feɪk/ |
| he / she / it fakes | /feɪks/ /feɪks/ |
| past simple faked | /feɪkt/ /feɪkt/ |
| past participle faked | /feɪkt/ /feɪkt/ |
| -ing form faking | /ˈfeɪkɪŋ/ /ˈfeɪkɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] fake something to make something false appear to be real, especially in order to cheat somebody
- She faked her mother's signature on the document.
- He arranged the accident in order to fake his own death.
- [transitive, intransitive] fake (something) to pretend to have a particular feeling, illness, etc.
- She's not really sick—she's just faking it.
- He faked a yawn.
Extra Examples- But what if he wasn't faking?
- Do you think she's faking?
Word Originlate 18th cent. (originally slang): origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately related to German fegen ‘sweep, thrash’.
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