Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.

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Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Pretended :: Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend..
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..
Skepticize :: Skepticize (v. i.) To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything.
Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.
Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (a.) Feigning; simulating; pretending.
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..
Pretensed :: Pretensed (a.) Pretended; feigned.
Soi-disant :: Soi-disant (a.) Calling himself; self-styled; pretended; would-be.
Cunningman :: Cunningman (n.) A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries.
Corival :: Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.
False :: False (a.) To feign; to pretend to make.
Diviner :: Diviner (n.) One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means..
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..
Wiseling :: Wiseling (n.) One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
Spurious :: Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate..
Politicaster :: Politicaster (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.
Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..
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