
Xem thêm: make-believe, feign, sham, affect, dissemble, dissemble, act, guess, venture, hazard, make, make believe, profess, make-believe
pretend verb
ADV. otherwise You know what this is all about, Natasha. Why pretend otherwise?
VERB + PRETEND can/could no longer | try to | be dishonest to, be idle to, be ridiculous to, be useless to It's useless to pretend that we might still win.
PREP. to He pretended to his boss that he'd written the article.
PHRASES go on pretending I can't go on pretending any longer. | just/only pretending Maria knew he was only pretending. | let's pretend Let's pretend it never happened. | stop pretending, there's no point in pretending
n.
it was just pretend
v.
He feigned that he was ill
He shammed a headache
She's just acting
pretend the title of King
I am guessing that the price of real estate will rise again
I cannot pretend to say that you are wrong
She makes like an actress
He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt
She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber
She pretends to be an expert on wine
adj.
the make-believe world of theater
play money
dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish