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feindre la maladie — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • malinger verb To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

Senses

feindre la maladie is used for these senses in English:

  • malinger (ambitransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

malinger — full definition

  1. verb To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
  2. verb To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

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