1[transitiveT]COPY to make something seem real in order to deceive people 仿造;伪造
She faked her father’s signature on the cheque.
她在支票上伪造了其父的签名。
The insurance company suspected that he had faked his own death.
保险公司怀疑他制造了自己死亡的假象。
The results of the experiments were faked.
这些实验的结果都是伪造出来的。
2[intransitiveI, transitiveT]PRETEND to pretend to be ill, interested etc when you are not 假装,伪装
I thought he was really hurt but he was faking it.
我以为他真受伤了,可他只是装出来的。
3[intransitiveI, transitiveT]PRETEND to pretend to move in one direction, but then move in another, especially when playing sport 〔尤指体育比赛中〕做(…的)假动作
He faked a pass.
他做了个传球的假动作。
4.fake somebody ↔ outphrasal verbphr vAmerican EnglishAmEFALSEto deceive someone by making them think you are planning to do something when you are really planning to do something else 欺骗〔某人〕
Examples from the Corpus
fake out• The designerfakes come out for Christmas.• But there's also a flock of socially acceptablefake fur out there.
Examples from the Corpus
fake• Hard to say, but Jane wasn't faking.• Favre had faked a handoff to Edgar Bennett, then slipped as he looked for a receiver.• Elway faked a pass and ran with the ball.• Singer Fairlie Arrow was fined £10,000 for faking a two-day abduction to boost her ailingcareer.• They can't be faked by simply changing your motion, or anything like that.• He faked his grandfather's signature on the check.• The bag had been faked out.• But he kept his balance, bounced to the right, broke a tackle, faked two defenders and raced 32 yards.• The collector will know that it is faked up in the style of an earlier period.
faking it• It was something I felt driven to do - even if most of the time I felt that I was just faking it.• I spent ten years faking it, and hating it, and it didn't get me anywhere.• Ordark thought-are they just faking it like I am?
From Longman Business Dictionary
fakefake1 /feɪk/adjectiveadj
made to look like something valuable or GENUINE (=real) in order to deceive people
fake Rolex watches
Three bank employees had issued fake certificates for collateral on loans.
fakefake2 noun [countableC]LAW
a copy of an original document, valuable object etc that is intended to deceive people into believing it is the real document, object etc
The signature on the contract proved to be a fake.
fakefake3 verb [transitiveT] informal
to make an exact copy of something, or inventfigures or results, in order to deceive people
She had faked her boss’s signature on the cheque.
Originfake3
(1700-1800) Probably from Germanfegen“to sweep, polish”