Word Finder - pretends

definition

To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.

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To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).

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To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to)

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To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.

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To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.

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To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.

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To hold before one; to extend.

An emulator pretends the program is the game system and uses specially-created ROMs instead of the actual cartridges to play the game.

With the abundance of toys and video games on the market, a child who pretends may actually seem to be a rarity.

A child who pretends is a child who continues to develop his language and thinking skills and nurture his imagination.

He pretends to drown, sleeps on the beach for a few hours, and about dawn pedals off into the sunrise.

Of natural history and botany he pretends to no special knowledge.

The Zohar pretends to be a compilation made by Simon b.

The church lays down a rule of domestic policy, and neither gives nor pretends to give any absolute criterion for the validity of ordination.

About this time, inspired by a heavenly voice (which he pretends to have heard in a dream), he abjured all the luxuries of life, and resolved upon a pilgrimage to the holy shrines of Mecca and Medina, hoping to find there the solution of all his religious doubts.

He is no loose cannon, merely a man who pretends to be.

The novel shows the falsity of his public image in order to demonstrate the fallacy of the doctrines he pretends to hold.

She pretends to be the chaste spouse of Christ; and in the seventeenth chapter she is called the harlot.

The British media occasionally pretends to be shocked that she charges appearance fees.

Mallory pretends to co-operate with the crime syndicate so that he has time to build a death ray and kill the mobsters.

Hiroshi pretends that their car is broken in order to engineer an overnight stay in the house.

He is a professional beggar, tho in order to avoid the police regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax Vestas.

He pretends to fall into a swoon and says senseless things that should have ruined him.

He is a professional beggar, tho in order to avoid the police regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas.

With fantasy sports, a game player pretends to be the owner of a team and builds it to complete with other "owners."

So that she won't be kicked out, Nate pretends to be her date, and even kisses her in front of everyone.

This is achieved; and Briinnhilde's horror and bewilderment at meeting Siegfried again as a stranger in his own shape creates a situation which Siegfried cannot understand, and which Hagen pretends to construe as damning evidence that Siegfried has betrayed Gunther's honour as well as Briinnhilde's.

When grown up, Orestes, in response to frequent messages from his sister, secretly repairs with Pylades to Argos, where he pretends to be a messenger from Strophius bringing the news of the death of Orestes.

A quack is one who pretends to knowledge of which he is ignorant, a charlatan, particularly a medical impostor.

What believer in God pretends to conceive Him as He really is ?

Squelching back, they meet Foley, who pretends not to know Peter, much to Peter 's astonishment.

Not many years ago it would have been accounted a heresy to suggest that the historical books of the Old Testament had conveyed to our minds estimates of Oriental history that suffered from this same defect; but to-day no one who is competent to speak with authority pretends to doubt that such is really the fact.

But, on the other hand, no one pretends to have found the rigorous expression for the law, and the appropriate approximation may take quite different forms when constants which are large in one case are small in the other.