Pretend(v. i.) 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.
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.
Pretend(v. t.) To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
Pretend(v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
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.
Pretend(v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
Pretend(v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.
Pretendant(n.) A pretender; a claimant.
Pretended(a.) Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend.
Pretended(imp. & p. p.) of Pretend
Pretendence(n.) The act of pretending; pretense.
Pretender(n.) One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant.
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.
Pretender(n.) One who pretends, simulates, or feigns.
Pretending(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pretend
Pretendingly(adv.) As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously.
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