faketh

Verb (1)

fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked)

1. (transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
2. (transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
   • to fake a marriage

   Synonyms:

   pass off, pose

3. (archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
4. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is.
   • He had a hundred similar tricks, but I never knew him fake a horse, or sell one as sound if it was not.1944, George Henderson, The Farming Ladder

   Synonyms:

   adulterate

5. (ambitransitive) To improvise, in jazz.
   • Occasionally the opportunity arises to stand up and "fake" a jazz standard.1994, ITA Journal, volume 22, page 20

Verb (2)

fake (third-person singular simple present fakes, present participle faking, simple past and past participle faked)

1. 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.

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