OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14297

fake

/feɪ̯k/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
doblete • falsificación
Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
Among other interesting and weighty opinions, which were in general agreement with our contentions, was one by Mr. H. A. Staddon of Goodmayes, a gentleman who had made a particular…
I suspect this passport is a fake.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 14298

fake

/feɪ̯k/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
falsear • falsificar
To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
fingir • fintar • fintear
To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
to fake a marriage
to fake happiness
falsear • falsificar
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.