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    fake
    [fāk]
    adjective
    fake (adjective)
    1. not genuine; counterfeit:
      "fake designer clothing" · "expressing fake emotions"
      • (of a person) claiming to be something that one is not:
        "a fake doctor"
    noun
    fake (noun) · fakes (plural noun)
    1. a thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham:
      "the painting was a fake"
      • a person who appears or claims to be something that they are not:
        "I felt sure that some of the nuns were fakes"
    verb
    fake (verb) · fakes (third person present) · faked (past tense) · faked (past participle) · faking (present participle)
    1. forge or counterfeit (something):
      "the woman faked her spouse's signature" · "a faked exit visa"
      • pretend to feel or suffer from (an emotion or illness):
        "he had begun to fake a bad stomachache"
      • make (an event) appear to happen:
        "he faked his own death"
      • music
        informal
        improvise (a melody, accompaniment, song, etc.):
        "he fakes the melody line of a standard tune"
    Origin
    early 19th century (originally as a verb, in the sense do something criminal or dishonest to someone): origin uncertain; probably a variant of the obsolete verbs feak, feaguebeat, whip, probably from German fegen ‘sweep, thrash’. Compare with fig.
    fake
    [fāk]
    noun
    fake (noun) · fakes (plural noun)
    1. variant spelling of flake
    verb
    fake (verb) · fakes (third person present) · faking (present participle) · faked (past tense) · faked (past participle)
    1. variant spelling of flake
    Origin
    late Middle English (as a verb): of unknown origin.
    flake
    [flāk]
    noun
    fake (noun)
    1. a small, flat, thin piece of something, typically one that has broken away or been peeled off from a larger piece:
      "paint peeling off the walls in unsightly flakes" · "flakes of pastry"
      • a snowflake:
        "the snow was coming down in thick flakes"
      • archaeology
        a piece of hard stone chipped off for use as a tool by prehistoric humans:
        "flake tools"
      • thin pieces of crushed, dried food or bait for fish.
    2. informal
      an unreliable, eccentric, or unconventional person:
      "I told my husband she was a flake and she'd never show up"
    verb
    fake (verb)
    1. come or fall away from a surface in thin pieces:
      "the paint had been flaking off for years"
      • lose small fragments from the surface:
        "my nails have started to flake at the ends"
    2. break or divide (food) into thin pieces:
      "flake the fish"
      • (of food, especially when well cooked) come apart in thin pieces:
        "cook until the fish flakes easily"
    3. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
      informal
      fail to keep an appointment or fulfill a commitment, especially with little or no advance notice:
      "a real friend won't ever flake on you" · "twice, you had plans, and both times you flaked"
    Origin
    Middle English: the immediate source is unknown, the senses perhaps deriving from different words; probably of Germanic origin and related to flag and flaw. In flake out the verb is a variant of obsolete flack and the verb flag..
    flake
    [flāk]
    noun
    fake (noun)
    1. a rack or shelf for storing or drying food such as fish.
    Origin
    Middle English (denoting a wicker hurdle): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Old Norse flaki, fleki ‘wicker shield’ and Danish flage ‘hurdle’.
    flake
    [flāk]
    noun
    fake (noun)
    1. a single turn of a coiled rope or hawser.
    verb
    fake (verb)
    1. lay (a rope) in loose coils in order to prevent it from tangling:
      "a cable had to be flaked out"
      • lay (a sail) down in folds either side of the boom.
    Origin
    early 17th century (as a noun): of unknown origin; compare with German Flechte in the same sense.
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    Similar and Opposite Words
    adjective
    1. not genuine; counterfeit:
      forgery
      counterfeit
      copy
      sham
      fraud
      hoax
      imitation
      mock-up
      dummy
      reproduction
      lookalike
      likeness
      phoney
      pirate
      knockoff
      rip-off
      dupe
      forged
      fraudulent
      false
      bogus
      spurious
      pseudo
      worthless
      invalid
      dud
      artificial
      synthetic
      simulated
      replica
      ersatz
      plastic
      man-made
      mock
      so-called
      pretend
      fakey
      Opposite:
      genuine
    noun
    1. a thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham:
      forgery
      counterfeit
      copy
      sham
      fraud
      hoax
      imitation
      mock-up
      dummy
      reproduction
      lookalike
      likeness
      phoney
      pirate
      knockoff
      rip-off
      dupe
    verb
    1. forge or counterfeit (something):
      forge
      counterfeit
      falsify
      sham
      feign
      mock up
      copy
      reproduce
      replicate
      doctor
      alter
      pirate
      tamper with
      tinker with
      fiddle (with)
    noun
    1. a small, flat, thin piece of something, typically one that has broken away or been peeled off from a larger piece:
      sliver
      wafer
      shaving
      paring
      peeling
      chip
      shard
      scale
      crumb
      grain
      speck
      spillikin
      fragment
      scrap
      shred
      bit
      particle
      spall
      lamina
      skelf
      verb
      1. come or fall away from a surface in thin pieces:
        peel off
        peel
        chip
        blister
        come off
        desquamate
        exfoliate
        scale off
        come off in layers
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