Shammed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sham \Sham\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shammed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Shamming}.]
     1. To trick; to cheat; to deceive or delude with false
        pretenses.
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              Fooled and shammed into a conviction. --L'Estrange.
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     2. To obtrude by fraud or imposition. [R.]
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              We must have a care that we do not . . . sham
              fallacies upon the world for current reason.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
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     3. To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape;
        to feign.
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     {To sham Abram} or {To sham Abraham}, to feign sickness; to
        malinger. Hence a malingerer is called, in sailors' cant,
        Sham Abram, or Sham Abraham.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sham
       adj : adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed
             cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive
             sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish
             voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: {assumed}, {false}, {fictitious},
              {fictive}, {pretended}, {put on}]
       n 1: something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
            [syn: {fake}, {postiche}]
       2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: {imposter}, {impostor},
           {pretender}, {fake}, {faker}, {fraud}, {shammer}, {pseudo},
           {pseud}, {role player}]
       v 1: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though
            she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: {simulate},
             {assume}, {feign}]
       2: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he
          was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: {feign}, {pretend},
           {affect}, {dissemble}]
       [also: {shamming}, {shammed}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shammed
       See {sham}