See pretend on Wiktionary
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"text": "\"The truth is, Ma'am,\" said Mrs. Grant, pretending to whisper across the table to Mrs. Norris, \"that Dr. Grant hardly knows what the natural taste of our apricot is;[…].\"",
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"text": "Gap and other clothes manufacturers should stop using small subcontractors because they are difficult to control. Instead, they should open up their own fully-owned production facilities so that they cannot pretend ignorance when abuses are committed.",
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"text": "\"After what past at Upton, so soon to engage in a new amour with another woman, while I fancied, and you pretended, your heart was bleeding for me!\"",
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"ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
"text": "It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.",
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"ref": "1983 October 31, Genesis, “That's All”, in Genesis:",
"text": "But I love you / More than I wanted to / There's no point in trying to pretend",
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"ref": "2009 April 13, “Vanity publishing”, in The Economist:",
"text": "I have nothing but contempt for people who hire ghost-writers. But at least most faux authors have the decency to pretend that they are sweating blood over \"their\" book.",
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"text": "The family's exile was intended to stop them pretending to the throne.",
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "hipokriti"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "teeskennellä"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "prétendre"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "finxir"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "so tun, als ob"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "láta eins og"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "loottiissa"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "näyttää"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "lig ar"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "fingere"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"alt": "...のふりをする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "...no furi o suru",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "...の振りをする"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"alt": "みせかける",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "misekakeru",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "見せ掛ける"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"alt": "よそおう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yosōu",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "装う"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "kea",
"lang": "Kabuverdianu",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "finji"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "-n/-neun/-eun/-in chehada",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "ㄴ/는/은/인 체하다"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "-n/-neun/-eun/-in cheokhada",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "ㄴ/는/은/인 척하다"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "simulo"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "fingo"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "lut",
"lang": "Lushootseed",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "ʔiw̓adəb"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "berlagak"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "berpura-pura"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "udawać"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "fingir"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "preface"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "pretinde"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "délatʹ vid",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "де́лать вид"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sdélatʹ vid",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сде́лать вид"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pritvorjátʹsja",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "притворя́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pritvorítʹsja",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "притвори́ться"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prikídyvatʹsja",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "прики́дываться"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prikínutʹsja",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"perfective"
],
"word": "прики́нуться"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "leig air"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "predstierať"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "fingir"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "låtsas"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "magkunwari"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "kandırmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "üç kağıda getirmek"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "uydurmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "udaváty",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "удава́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "vdaváty",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "вдава́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "giả vờ"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 4 3 74 8 3 4",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to claim falsely (that)",
"word": "cogio"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 89 4 2 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pretendíram",
"sense": "to lay claim to",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"perfective"
],
"word": "претенди́рам"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 89 4 2 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to lay claim to",
"word": "teeskennellä"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 1 89 4 2 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to lay claim to",
"word": "prétendre à"
}
]
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
"text": "Lest that too heavenly form, pretended / To hellish falsehood, snare them.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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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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[
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) 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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"transitive"
]
},
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"ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:",
"text": "Such as shall pretend / Malicious practices against his state.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt."
],
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[
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],
[
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],
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],
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"(transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt."
],
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"transitive"
]
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{
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
"text": "Pastorella […] Was by the Captaine all this while defended, / Who, minding more her safety then himselfe, / His target alwayes over her pretended[…].",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1596, Edm[und] Spenser, “An Hymne of Heavenly Beautie”, in Fowre Hymnes, London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 43:",
"text": "But had thoſe vvits the vvonders of their dayes, / Or that ſvveete Teian Poet [Anacreon] vvhich did ſpend / His plenteous vaine in ſetting forth her [Venus's] prayſe, / Seene but a glims of this, vvhich I pretend, / Hovv vvondrouſly vvould he her face commend, […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To hold before one; to extend."
],
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
}
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},
{
"ipa": "/pɹiˈtɛnd/"
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"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "voorgee"
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{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
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"roman": "taẓāhara",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "تَظَاهَرَ"
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{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prestrúvam se",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "престру́вам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "simulíram",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"tags": [
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"word": "симули́рам"
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{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "fer veure"
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{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "doen alsof"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "komedii"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "teeskennellä"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "olla tekevinään"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "feindre"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "faire semblant"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "so tun, als ob"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "þykjast"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "lig ar"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "fare finta"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "fingere"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "kea",
"lang": "Kabuverdianu",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "finji"
},
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"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
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"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "whakatakune"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "whakataruna"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "fingir"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "aparentar"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "simular"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "es",
"english": "a person",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "hacer de"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"note": "an action",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "hacer como que"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "jugar a"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "actuar"
},
{
"_dis1": "19 19 19 17 16 6 5",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to make oneself appear (to do something)",
"word": "magkunwari"
}
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "imaginary",
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{
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"sense": "imaginary",
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},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "imaginary",
"word": "på låtsas"
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}
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