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pretend

English

  1. 🔊 imagined as in a play
    “the make-believe world of theater”
  2. 🔊 the enactment of a pretense
    “it was just pretend”
  3. 🔊 put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
    “pretend the title of King”
  4. 🔊 state insincerely
    “He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt”
  5. 🔊 represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
    “She makes like an actress”
  6. 🔊 behave unnaturally or affectedly
    “She's just acting”
  7. 🔊 make believe with the intent to deceive
    “He feigned that he was ill”
  8. 🔊 put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
    “I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 hacer de cuenta to pretend
  2. 🔊 aparentar to pretend, feign, front
  3. 🔊 pretender to pretend, purport (claim, allege)

Similar words

make-believe profess feign sham affect dissemble make make believe guess venture hazard dissemble act make-believe act act a part adopt affect aim to allege appropriate arrogate assume attempt