Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.

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Simulate :: Simulate (a.) Feigned; pretended.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..
Pythonic :: Pythonic (a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.
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..
Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..
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..
Divination :: Divination (n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
Pretex :: Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely..
Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.
Witling :: Witling (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
Pretendership :: Pretendership (n.) The character, right, or claim of a pretender..
Connive :: Connive (v. t.) To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.
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
Politicaster :: Politicaster (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.
Sham :: Sham (a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight..
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..
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
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