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doc Definition of pretend
    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
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