counterfeit
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Is counterfeit a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of counterfeit?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.Examples: "Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens."; "Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself."obsolete
2. (obsolete) An impostor; a cheat.Examples: "I fear thou art another counterfeit; / And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.Examples: "to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc."transitive
2. (transitive, obsolete) To produce a faithful copy of.Examples: "The title page of White's original album includes a descriptive title page that identifies the contents as “the pictures of sondry things collected and counterfeited according to the truth,""obsoletetransitive
3. (transitive, obsolete) To feign; to mimic.Examples: "to counterfeit the voice of another person"; "Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee / At all his jokes, for many a joke had he."; "I again conveyed his key into his pocket, and counterfeiting sleep—though I never once closed my eyes, lay in bed till after he arose and went to prayers—an exercise to which I had long been unaccustomed."obsoletetransitive
4. (transitive, poker, usually "be counterfeited") Of a turn or river card, to invalidate a player's hand by making a better hand on the board.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary