fake

noun

Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

(sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.

(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

(archaic) A trick; a swindle

verb

(transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.

(transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

(music, ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.

(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

(archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

(archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is

adjective

Not real; false, fraudulent.

(Of people) Insincere

Words related to fake

fauxadj postichen phoninessn bogusnessn boguslyadv fakeryn falseradj inauthenticadj suppositiousadj knockoffn fraudulentlyadv deepfake factitiouslyadv factitiousnessn fictitiousnessn misrepresentv imposturen

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