malinger

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Pronunciation

/məˈlɪŋɡə/

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/məˈlɪŋɡə/ · /məˈlɪŋɡɚ/(US)

Definition of malinger

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

(ambitransitive)To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

“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.”

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verb

(ambitransitive)To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.

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

name

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From French malingrer, from adjective malingre (“delicate, fragile”).

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