pretend
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
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Senses
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state insincerely
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make believe with the intent to deceive
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put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
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behave unnaturally or affectedly
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put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
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Cognitive
Understand72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
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Variants
- synonym
- actmakeprofessshamventure
- pasttense
- pretended
- presentparticiple
- pretending
- thirdpersonsingular
- pretends
- pastparticiple
- pretended