Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden..

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Corival :: Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.
Dudder :: Dudder (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer..
Skepticize :: Skepticize (v. i.) To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything.
Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..
Pyromantic :: Pyromantic (n.) One who pretends to divine by fire.
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
Coxcomb :: Coxcomb (n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop..
Assentation :: Assentation (n.) Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence..
Pretence :: Pretence (n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint..
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true..
Pretended :: Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend..
Pretendence :: Pretendence (n.) The act of pretending; pretense.
Malingerer :: Malingerer (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability..
Reformalize :: Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
Pretended :: Pretended (imp. & p. p.) of Preten.
Assume :: Assume (v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Perfectionist :: Perfectionist (n.) One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life..
Quiz :: Quiz (v. t.) To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions..
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