faked
- 1Simple past and past participle of fake.
The dealer faked the signature on the painting to raise its price.
Investigators discovered the company had faked its safety reports for years.
Note
A regular past form: the silent e of fake simply takes -d, and one spelling serves as both past tense and participle. Because most uses of fake are transitive, faked turns up readily in the passive (the reports were faked). It carries every sense of the verb, though, so a musician may have faked a chorus by improvising it, and a sailor faked a line by coiling it in figure-of-eight layers to keep it from twisting.
faked is a form of fake
fake, verb: To put on a false display of something; to feign or simulate a feeling or state. Full entry
- Spelling
- fake → faked: add -d
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