counterfeited

verb

Definition of counterfeitednext
past tense of counterfeit
1
as in forged
to imitate or copy especially in order to deceive an expert at counterfeiting money

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2
as in pretended
to present a false appearance of managing to counterfeit a happy expression while visiting a sick friend

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterfeited
  1. forged
  2. pretended
  3. simulated
  4. assumed
Verb
  • Five were created by Mark Hill, the son of the property owner and an accomplished sculptor who works primarily in forged and welded corten and stainless steel.
    Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Five were created by Mark Hill, the son of the property owner and an accomplished sculptor who works primarily in forged and welded corten and stainless steel.
    Erik Matuszewski, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of forged
Verb
  • Oh Il-nam (Oh Yeong-su), a dying old man who pretended to be Gi-hun’s ally in the game.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
  • In the meantime, Griffin pretended to like the other gift.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of pretended
Verb
  • Depending on the intensity, duration and sequence of those vibrations, sensations such as being tapped, stroked or squeezed can be simulated.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The series of tests, which began in January 2024, simulated the extreme conditions of a launch abort scenario to see how the spacecraft would withstand an emergency event, according to a statement from NASA.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of simulated
Verb
  • Other linguistic features once assumed to be universal—such as tenses, personal pronouns, and even, potentially, a distinction between nouns and verbs—have turned up missing when greater numbers of languages have been scrutinized.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Some cognitive scientists have assumed that all humans, whatever their local quirks, reason about time using spatial metaphors, yet at least one language, Tupi-Kawahíb, evidently lacks any mapping between time and space—not left to right, back to front, or downhill to uphill.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of assumed
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