Definition of pretend

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Pretend (v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship..

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Pyromantic :: Pyromantic (n.) One who pretends to divine by fire.
False :: False (a.) To feign; to pretend to make.
Stoicity :: Stoicism (n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
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..
Reformalize :: Reformalize (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
Preterition :: Preterition (n.) A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, a summary mention of it is made; as, I will not say, he is valiant, he is learned, he is just. Called also paraleipsis..
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
Pretended :: Pretended (a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend..
Pansophical :: Pansophical (a.) All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders..
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
Pretend :: Pretend (v. t.) To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
Philosophaster :: Philosophaster (n.) A pretender to philosophy.
Assumed :: Assumed (a.) Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character..
True :: True (n.) Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian..
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..
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..
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
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..
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..
Pretending :: Pretending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preten.
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