Feign

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To Dissemble; to Conceal.

II. Feign ·vt To represent by a false appearance of; to Pretend; to Counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness.

III. Feign ·vt 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.