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Meaning of pretend
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pretend
adj 1: imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of
theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water
to catch pretend fish" [syn: {make-believe}, {pretend}]
n 1: the enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" [syn:
{make-believe}, {pretend}]
v 1: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that
he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: {feign}, {sham},
{pretend}, {affect}, {dissemble}]
2: behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting" [syn:
{dissemble}, {pretend}, {act}]
3: put forward a claim and assert right or possession of;
"pretend the title of King"
4: 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" [syn: {guess},
{venture}, {pretend}, {hazard}]
5: represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act
like; "She makes like an actress" [syn: {make}, {pretend},
{make believe}]
6: 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" [syn:
{profess}, {pretend}]
WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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