Feign+illness

  • 31malingerer — malinger ► VERB ▪ exaggerate or feign illness in order to escape duty or work. DERIVATIVES malingerer noun. ORIGIN from French malingre weak, sickly …

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  • 32malinger — v.intr. exaggerate or feign illness in order to escape duty, work, etc. Derivatives: malingerer n. Etymology: back form. f. malingerer app. f. F malingre, perh. formed as MAL + haingre weak …

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  • 33ABBA SIKRA — (or Sakkara), talmudic name of one of the leaders in the defense of Jerusalem against the Romans in 66–70 C.E. Abba Sikra is regarded by some scholars as an epithet meaning chief of the sicarii . Jastrow, however, believes the word sikra means… …

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  • 34Malingering — Classification and external resources ICD 10 Z76.5 ICD 9 V65.2 MeSH …

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  • 35Disease — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Disease >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 disease disease Sgm: N 1 illness illness sickness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 ailing ailing &c.??? all the ills that flesh is heir to =>(Hamlet) Sgm: N 1 morbidity morbidity …

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  • 36Murder of Rosie Palmer — Rose Frances Palmer Rosie Palmer Born 1 August 1990 Died 30 June 1994 (aged 3) Cause of death Undetermined …

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  • 37disease — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Condition of ill health Nouns 1. disease, illness, sickness, ailment, ailing; morbidity, infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; functional disorder. 2. condition, affliction,… …

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  • 38syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …

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  • 39pretend — /pri tend /, v.t. 1. to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong. 2. to appear falsely, as to deceive; feign: to pretend to go to sleep. 3. to make believe: The children pretended …

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  • 40pretend — pre•tend [[t]prɪˈtɛnd[/t]] v. 1) to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so; claim: pretending that nothing is wrong[/ex] 2) to put forward a false appearance of, as to deceive; feign: to pretend illness[/ex] 3) to make believe: The …

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