Feign+illness

  • 1feign — [[t]fe͟ɪn[/t]] feigns, feigning, feigned VERB If someone feigns a particular feeling, attitude, or physical condition, they try to make other people think that they have it or are experiencing it, although this is not true. [FORMAL] [V n] One… …

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  • 2illness — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deadly, fatal, incurable, terminal ▪ catastrophic (AmE, law), critical, dangerous, debilitating, devastating …

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  • 3feign — verb Feign is used with these nouns as the object: ↑disappointment, ↑enthusiasm, ↑ignorance, ↑illness, ↑indifference, ↑injury, ↑innocence, ↑insanity, ↑interest, ↑look, ↑nonchalance, ↑ …

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  • 4Play possum — feign illness or death …

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  • 5Self-harm — This article focuses on repetitive self harm, not on severe self harm inflicted during psychosis. For forms of self harm related to body image, sexuality and wartime, see Body modification, Algolagnia and Self inflicted wound respectively. Self… …

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  • 6The Goon Show — Infobox Radio Show show name = The Goon Show imagesize = caption = format = Comedy record location = Camden Theatre London creator = Spike Milligan producer = Peter Eton (101) Dennis Main Wilson (38) Pat Dixon (29) Charles Chilton (25) John… …

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  • 7Attraction to disability — is a sexualised interest of people in the appearance, sensation and experience of disability. It may extend from normal human sexuality into a type of sexual fetishism. Sexologically, the pathological end of the attraction tends to be seen[Need… …

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  • 8Books of Samuel — The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: Sefer Sh muel ספר שמואל) are part of the Tanakh (part of Judaism s Hebrew Bible) and also of the Christian Old Testament. The work was originally written in Hebrew, and the Book(s) of Samuel originally formed a single …

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  • 9shirk — v 1.(all of work, responsibility, etc.) evade, avoid, run from, dodge, whiffle, side step, elude, weasel out; shrink from, Inf. funk, blench at, blink at; sneak off, sneak out the back way, make oneself scarce, take off, take a walk; play truant …

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  • 10Malinger — Ma*lin ger, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {MAlingered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Malingering}.] To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability. [1913 Webster] …

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