malinger en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
From French malingrer, from adjective malingre (“delicate, fragile”).
Meanings
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(ambitransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 13:It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition.
1984, The Psychiatric Quarterly, volume 56:
- (ambitransitive) To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| malingered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| malingered | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| malingering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| malingers | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Deriveds
malingering · malingeror · malingerer · malingery
Hypernyms
Relateds
to call out someone for · differentiated from malingering by a component of real mental illness as opposed to solely a sane calculation of shirking · either factitious pretense · malingering · or accuse someone of · factitious disorder
Translations (31)
ru симули́ровать (to feign illness) · yue 詐病 /诈病 (to feign illness) · bg преструвам се на болен (to feign illness) · pt fingir estar doente (to feign illness) · pl udawać chorego (to feign illness) · fr feindre la maladie (to feign illness) · de simulieren (to feign illness) · pl symulować (to feign illness) · fr se faire porter pâle (to feign illness) · mi whakangehengehe (to feign illness) · ko 꾀병을 부리다 (to feign illness) · pl udać chorego (to feign illness) · hu színlel (to feign illness) · mk симулира (to feign illness) · es hacerse el enfermo (to feign illness) · cmn 裝病 /装病 (to feign illness) · hu szimulál (to feign illness) · ja 仮病を使う (to feign illness) · fr faire le malade (to feign illness) · hu tettet (to feign illness) · hu betegnek adja ki magát (to feign illness) · ru притворя́ться больны́м (to feign illness) · ru прики́дываться больны́м (to feign illness) · ga bheith ag meathlóireacht (to feign illness) · fi tekeytyä sairaaksi (to feign illness) · fi teeskennellä sairasta (to feign illness) · cs simulovat (to feign illness) · ru притвори́ться больны́м (to feign illness) · cs hodit se marod (to feign illness) · ru прики́нуться больны́м (to feign illness) · ar تَمَارَضَ (to feign illness)