Difference between Pretend and Feign

PRETEND vs FEIGN: NOUN

To give a false appearance of; feign.
To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to.
To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham.
To claim or allege insincerely or falsely.
To lay claim.
To feign an action or character, as in play.
To take upon oneself; venture.
To represent fictitiously in play; make believe.

To hold before one; to extend.
To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign.
To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit.
To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
To dissemble; to conceal.

To hold out before one or in front; stretch forward; hence, to put before one for action, consideration, or acceptance; offer; present.
To put forward as a statement or an assertion; especially, to allege or declare falsely or with intent to deceive.
To make pretense; make believe; counterfeit or feign.
To lay claim; assert a right of ownership or possession: generally followed by to.
To stretch or reach forward; aim; aspire: often with to.
To presage; portend; forebode.
To intend; design; plan; plot.
To aspire to; attempt; undertake.
To lay claim to; assert as a right or possession; claim.
To put forward as a reason or excuse; use as a pretext; allege as a ground or reason; hence, to put forward a false appearance of; simulate; counterfeit; feign.

To invent or imagine; utter, relate, or represent falsely or deceitfully.
To dissemble; disguise; conceal.
Reflexively, to show a sudden weakness; become weak or faint.
Synonyms To affect, simulate, profess.
To make believe; practise dissimulation or false representation; dissemble.
To sing with a low voice.
To make a false appearance of; counterfeit; simulate; pretend: as, to feign death.

Imagine, Say, Hide, Guess, Tell, Suppose, Presume, Make believe, Affect, Play, Sham, Act, Unreal, Dissemble, Feign

Engender, Accismus, Exaggerate, Deceive, Sneer, Betray, Contrive, Dissimulate, Disguise, Affect, Sham, Simulate, Assume, Dissemble, Pretend

Convince, Imagine, Say, Hide, Guess, Tell, Suppose, Presume, Make believe, Affect, Play, Sham, Act, Unreal, Feign

Seeming, Hide, Engender, Accismus, Exaggerate, Deceive, Sneer, Betray, Contrive, Dissimulate, Disguise, Affect, Sham, Simulate, Pretend

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
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Play with any air gun: To pretend to shoot another therewith or pretend to prepare to shoot another therewith.
This is why a friend can pretend to be Chewbacca while another can pretend to be a Stormtrooper.
As a thought leader, you can pretend to care but you can never pretend to show up.
Get cooking with the pretend appliances including the stovetop, oven with clickable knob, microwave, and refrigerator to keep pretend ingredients fresh.
Pretend City is celebrating Hanukah at Pretend City!
Children use their imagination for pretend play, pretend games, to tell stories, when drawing, painting, reading, model making, and dressing up.
For example, pretend to drink from an empty cup, pretend to talk on the phone, or pretend to feed a doll or stuffed animal?
Facebook and other tedious social networks, so you can invite your pretend friends to drive a pretend car around a pretend world.

He is a Carmelite, and must feign this prudence.
How to ignore SSL cert trust errors in Feign?
Safe pulling eschews Misdirection in favor of Feign Death.
Her voice is high, trying to feign disinterest.
DV and then feign you formed a disk.
Feign Client to get response from External Api.
The following examples show how to use feign.
Impostor can easily feign these stances as well.
Unruffled, vex may understandable into feign later on.
You can feign the fruit of the spirit but you cannot feign conviction and comfort.