faking

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of fake.

   She accused him of faking the injury to avoid the rest of the shift.

   Faking enthusiasm through the long meeting left him completely drained.

   Note

   Every meaning of fake travels into this form, so it reaches well beyond deceit. Besides counterfeiting a document or feigning an injury, a jazz player who is faking is improvising. On deck, sailors fake a rope by coiling it in alternating zigzag or figure-eight layers so it runs out without twisting. Older English also used it for outright swindling or robbing, a sense now archaic.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The act of producing or presenting something false and passing it off as genuine.

   The faking of historical documents has a long and sordid history.

   Detecting the faking of luxury watches requires a trained eye and a loupe.

   Similarforgery, counterfeiting, falsification, fabrication

   Note

   A true noun that behaves like one. It takes the and an of-phrase (the faking of evidence), and it can be counted, with the plural fakings. Compare the verb form, which takes its object directly: faking evidence. If the fits in front and of follows, you are using this noun. If the object follows with nothing between, you are using the verb.

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