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counterfeit
     1. adj. False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
           This counterfeit watch looks like the real thing, but it broke a week after I bought it.
     2. adj. Inauthentic.
           counterfeit sympathy
     3. adj. Assuming the appearance of something; deceitful; hypocritical.
     4. n. A non-genuine article; a fake.
     5. n. One who counterfeits; a counterfeiter.
     6. n. (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
     7. n. (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.
     8. v. To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.
           to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
     9. v. (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.
     10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic.
           to counterfeit the voice of another person
     11. v. (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.
fabricated
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of fabricate
     2. adj. constructed or assembled
     3. adj. false in the sense of made-up, constructed
     fabricate
          1. v. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.
                to fabricate a bridge or ship
          2. v. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.
                to fabricate computer chips
          3. v. To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.
                to fabricate a lie or story
          4. v. (transitive, cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.
fake
     1. adj. Not real; false, fraudulent.
           Which fur coat looks fake?
     2. adj. (of people) Insincere.
     3. n. Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
     4. n. A trick; a swindle.
     5. n. (sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.
     6. v. To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
     7. v. (archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is
     8. v. To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
     9. v. To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
           to fake a marriage
           to fake happiness
           to fake a smile
     10. n. (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
     11. v. (nautical) 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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