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pretend::verb | Spocien Dictionary

pretend

/prɪ'tɛnd/

behave unnaturally or affectedly

Type	Words
Synonyms	act, dissemble
Has types	sham, feign, assume, simulate
Verb group	act, do, behave
Derivation	pretender

pretend::noun | Spocien Dictionary

pretend

/prɪ'tɛnd/

the enactment of a pretense

Type	Words
Synonyms	make-believe
Type of	simulation, pretence, feigning, pretending, pretense

it was just pretend.

pretend::verb | Spocien Dictionary

pretend

/prɪ'tɛnd/

represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

Type	Words
Synonyms	make, make believe
Type of	act, represent, play
Has types	go through the motions
Verb group	dissemble, affect, sham, feign

pretend::verb | Spocien Dictionary

pretend

/prɪ'tɛnd/

state insincerely

Type	Words
Synonyms	profess
Type of	claim

She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber.

She pretends to be an expert on wine.

pretend::adjective | Spocien Dictionary

pretend

/prɪ'tɛnd/

imagined as in a play

Type	Words
Synonyms	make-believe

dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish.

pretend::verb | Spocien Dictionary

pretend

/prɪ'tɛnd/

make believe with the intent to deceive

Type	Words
Synonyms	affect, dissemble, feign, sham
Type of	misrepresent, belie
Has types	take a dive, mouth, talk through one's hat, play possum, fake, bull, bullshit
Verb group	make believe, make
Derivation	pretender, pretending, pretense

pretend::verb | Spocien Dictionary

pretend

/prɪ'tɛnd/

put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

Type	Words
Synonyms	guess, hazard, venture
Type of	speculate
Has types	foretell, anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise, surmise, suspect

I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong.

pretend::verb | Spocien Dictionary

pretend

/prɪ'tɛnd/

put forward a claim and assert right or possession of

Type	Words
Type of	arrogate, claim, lay claim
Derivation	pretension, pretender, pretense

pretend the title of King.