Definition of "malinger"

malinger

/məˈlɪŋɡə/

verb
third-person singular simple present malingers, present participle malingering, simple past and past participle malingered
1. (transitive, intransitive) To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
  Quotations
  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.
  1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egotist […], published 1917, page 13
  It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition.
  1984, The Psychiatric Quarterly‎, volume 56
2. (transitive, intransitive) To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.