Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. t.) To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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Stoicity :: Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Corival :: Corival (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal.
Dogsleep :: Dogsleep (n.) Pretended sleep.
Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
Sciolist :: Sciolist (n.) One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.
Spoliation :: Spoliation (v. t.) The act of an incumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title..
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.
Pretendant :: Pretendant (n.) A pretender; a claimant.
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..
Wiseling :: Wiseling (n.) One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre; a witling.
Pretensed :: Pretensed (a.) Pretended; feigned.
Reformalize :: Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
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..
Illuminate :: Illuminate (n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge..
Politicaster :: Politicaster (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.
Divinity :: Divinity (a.) A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
Connive :: Connive (v. t.) To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see.
Pseudo- :: Pseudo- () A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively..
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (a.) Feigning; simulating; pretending.
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