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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Skepticize :: Skepticize (v. i.) To doubt; to pretend to doubt of everything.
Conjurer :: Conjurer (n.) One who practices magic arts; one who pretends to act by the aid super natural power; also, one who performs feats of legerdemain or sleight of hand..
Politicaster :: Politicaster (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.
Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..
Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.
Dissimulate :: Dissimulate (v. i.) To dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
Divinator :: Divinator (n.) One who practices or pretends to divination; a diviner.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Pretender :: Pretender (n.) The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law..
Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.
Assumed :: Assumed (a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character..
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..
Quack :: Quack (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan..
Pretender :: Pretender (n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns..
Pretended :: Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend..
Pretend :: 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..
Assume :: Assume (v. t.) To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
Dudder :: Dudder (n.) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer..
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