Definition of pretend

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

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Dudder :: Dudder (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer..
Divinity :: Divinity (a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
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..
Pretendence :: Pretendence (n.) The act of pretending; pretense.
Philosophist :: Philosophist (n.) A pretender in philosophy.
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
Affecter :: Affecter (n.) One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..
Pretended :: Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend..
Reformalize :: Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
Sham :: Sham (a.) False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight..
Hocuspocus :: Hocuspocus (n.) A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.
Countenance :: Countenance (v. t.) To make a show of; to pretend.
Witling :: Witling (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..
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..
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