malinger

1. (ambitransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.Examples: "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."; "It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition."ambitransitive

2. (ambitransitive) To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.ambitransitive