Pretend

Verb

 * 1) To claim, allege, assert, contend, declare.
 * 2) to claim that or act as if something is different from what it actually is, often incorrectly and knowingly
 * Don't pretend you didn't know about this!

Related terms

 * pretender
 * pretense
 * pretension
 * pretentious
 * pretentiousness

Adverbs for Pretend
satirically; childishly; deliberately; extravagantly; chimerically; groundlessly; idiotically; irrationally; sportively.

Thesaurus
act, act a part, adopt, affect, aim to, allege, appropriate, arrogate, assume, attempt, attempt to, avow, bluff, challenge, claim, counterfeit, cover up, dare, dare to, dissemble, dissimulate, do a bit, dramatize, encroach, endeavor, fake, feign, four-flush, gammon, hazard, histrionize, infringe, invade, lay claim to, let on, let on like, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make bold, make free, make like, make out, make out like, overact, play, play God, play a part, play a scene, play possum, playact, presume, pretend to, pretext, profess, protest too much, purport, put on, put on airs, represent, seek to, seize, sham, simulate, strive to, study to, take over, take the liberty, trespass, try, try and, try to, tug the heartstrings, undertake, usurp, venture, venture to, wear

Etymology
From pretendre: (French: prétendre: (false friend)) <  praetendere:, present active infinitive of praetendo: < prae: + tendo:; see tend.

Translations

 * Arabic: ادعى, زعم
 * Catalan:, fer veure
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: voorwenden, doen alsof
 * Finnish:, esittää
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 振りをする, 見せ掛ける, 装う


 * Korean: 체하다
 * Latin: simulo, fingo
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: preface, pretinde
 * Russian: делать вид, сделать вид ; притворяться ,  притвориться
 * Scottish Gaelic: leig air
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: låtsas
 * Ukrainian: удавати (udaváty), вдавати (vdaváty)