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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Pretend :: 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..
Backare :: Backare (interj.) Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess..
Simular :: Simular (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender..
Pretended :: Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend..
Psilosopher :: Psilosopher (n.) A superficial or narrow pretender to philosophy; a sham philosopher.
Cunningman :: Cunningman (n.) A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
Quack :: Quack (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan..
Pretex :: Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely..
Divinity :: Divinity (a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
Pythonic :: Pythonic (a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
Pretension :: Pretension (n.) The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title..
Pretence :: Pretence (n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint..
Countenance :: Countenance (v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.
Cultrivorous :: Cultrivorous (a.) Devouring knives; swallowing, or pretending to swallow, knives; -- applied to persons who have swallowed, or have seemed to swallow, knives with impunity..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
Icon :: Icon (n.) An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
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..
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