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shammed |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Fooled and shammed into a conviction. --L'Estrange. 2. To obtrude by fraud or imposition. [R.] We must have a care that we do not . . . sham fallacies upon the world for current reason. --L'Estrange. 3. To assume the manner and character of to imitate; to ape; to feign. {To sham Abram} or {Abraham}, to feign sickness; to malinger. Hence a malingerer is called in sailors' cant, Sham Abram, or Sham Abraham.
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