Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..

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Strokesman :: Stroker (n.) One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking..
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
True :: True (n.) Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian..
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..
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (a.) Feigning; simulating; pretending.
Humble :: Humble (superl.) Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage..
Quack :: Quack (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor..
Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..
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..
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Pretension :: Pretension (n.) The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title..
Pretending :: Pretending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preten.
Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
Catharist :: Catharist (n.) One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.
Obtend :: Obtend (v. t.) To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend.
Hocuspocus :: Hocuspocus (n.) A term used by jugglers in pretended incantations.
Quack :: Quack (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan..
Pretendant :: Pretendant (n.) A pretender; a claimant.
Stoicity :: Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Assumed :: Assumed (a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character..
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