English to English
noun
- the enactment of a pretense
It was just pretend.
source: WordNet 3.0
adjective satellite
- imagined as in a play
The make-believe world of theater.
Play money.
Dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish.
source: WordNet 3.0
verb
- make believe with the intent to deceive
He feigned that he was ill.
He shammed a headache.
source: WordNet 3.0
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
She's just acting.
source: WordNet 3.0
- put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
Pretend the title of King.
source: WordNet 3.0
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again.
I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong.
source: WordNet 3.0
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
She makes like an actress.
source: WordNet 3.0
- state insincerely
He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt.
She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber.
She pretends to be an expert on wine.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
source: Webster 1913
- To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
verb
- [priténd] Magkunwâ
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
