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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Witling :: Witling (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
Dudder :: Dudder (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer..
Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..
Icon :: Icon (n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
Humble :: Humble (superl.) Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage..
Assentation :: Assentation (n.) Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence..
Bushwhacker :: Bushwhacker (n.) A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers..
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Magic :: Magic (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc..
Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
Philosophaster :: Philosophaster (n.) A pretender to philosophy.
Corival :: Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.
Assume :: Assume (v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..
Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.
Sciolist :: Sciolist (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.
Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.
Pretendence :: Pretendence (n.) The act of pretending; pretense.
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..
Countenance :: Countenance (v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.
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