Dictionary Entry
fake
fake is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
- 4transitive verb
To make; to construct; to do.
- 5transitive verb
To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
- 6noun
A trick; a swindle.
- 7noun
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player
Synonyms
- 8noun
something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- 9noun
a person who makes deceitful pretenses
- 10verb
speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
"The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"
- 11verb
make a copy of with the intent to deceive
"he faked the signature"
"they counterfeited dollar bills"
Synonyms
- 12verb
tamper, with the purpose of deception
"Fudge the figures"
"cook the books"
- 13adjective
fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- 14adjective
not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
"it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"
"faux pearls"
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