pretend

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.

   “You don't have to pretend that the soup tastes fine.”

2. fiil To engage in make-believe.

   “She moved her fingers across the desk, pretending to play the piano.”

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

   “She's pretending illness to get out of the business meeting.”

4. fiil To lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.).

   “The family's exile was intended to stop them pretending to the throne.”

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

   “Lest that too heavenly form, pretended / To hellish falsehood, snare them.”

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

   “Such as shall pretend / Malicious practices against his state.”

7. fiil To hold before one; to extend.

   “Pastorella […] Was by the Captaine all this while defended, / Who, minding more her safety then himselfe, / His target alwayes over her pretended[…].”

8. sıfat Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned.

   “As children we used to go on "spying" missions around the neighbour's house, but it was all pretend.”

9. isim The act of engaging in pretend play.

   “We used to dress up in our grandparents' old clothes and play pretend.”