pretend

Definition for pretend

verb as in fake, falsify

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assume, bluff, feign, fool, impersonate, profess, purport, put on

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act, affect, allege, beguile, cheat, claim, counterfeit, cozen, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, dupe, fish, fudge, hoodwink, jazz, jive, malinger, masquerade, mislead, sham, simulate, stonewall, sucker, whitewash

Weak matches

be deceitful, be hypocritical, claim falsely, fake out, lay claim, let on, make out, pass off, pass oneself off as, put up a front

verb as in play the part of

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imitate, impersonate, purport, suppose

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act, imagine, masquerade, mimic, play, playact, portray, pose, represent, reproduce

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assume the role, make as if, make believe, make out like, make up, put on a front, put on airs, put on an act

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Currently at London's Selfridges, you can buy fish and chips soft toys, sold to you by an assistant pretending to fry and put salt and vinegar on your selected teddies.

From BBC

There’s the story of the bad person who becomes a better person by pretending to be one, which is the direction Russ is indirectly headed, or why are we watching?

From Los Angeles Times

He stuck to his pattern and quickly fell into a familiar feedback loop: Flood the zone with chaos, and then pretend it never happened.

From Salon

He pretended to be dead and then managed to crawl back to his regiment under the cover of darkness.

From BBC

After all, it is hard to pretend America is being made great again when hunger is on the rise, especially when those in power would rather look away.

From Salon

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