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Thursday January 25, 2007

dissimulate \dih-SIM-yuh-layt\, transitive verb:
1. To conceal under a false appearance.

intransitive verb:
1. To hide one's feelings or intentions; to put on a false appearance; to feign; to pretend.

He was too drunk to attempt to dissimulate his loneliness.
-- Neil Gordon, The Gun Runner's Daughter

Her suffering was largely psychological and easily dissimulated.
-- George E. Delury, But What If She Wants to Die?

The dog cannot dissimulate, cannot deceive, cannot lie because he cannot speak.
-- Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele

Dissimulate comes from Latin dissimulare, "to conceal, to pretend that things are not as they are," from dis- + simulare, "to make like, to copy," from similis, "like." The noun form is dissimulation.

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