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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: pretended
aka-akal, pura-pura
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pretended
pretended
adj : adopted in order to deceive;
“an assumed name”;
“an assumed
cheerfulness”;
“a fictitious address”;
“fictive
sympathy”;
“a pretended interest”;
“a put-on childish
voice”;
“sham modesty” [syn:
assumed,
false,
fictitious,
fictive,
put on,
sham]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pretended
Pretended
\Pre*tend"ed\, a.
Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended
friend. --
Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.
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Pretend
\Pre*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Pretended; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Pretending.] [OE. pretenden to lay claim to, F.
pr['e]tendre, L. praetendere, praetentum, to stretch forward,
pretend, simulate, assert; prae before + tendere to stretch.
See
Tend, v. t. ]
1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
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Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.
--Dryden.
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2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for
something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
[R.]
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Lest that too heavenly form, pretended
To hellish falsehood, snare them. --Milton.
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3. To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or
offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to
show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to
simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.
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This let him know,
Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend
Surprisal. --Milton.
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4. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. [Obs.]
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Such as shall pretend
Malicious practices against his state. --Shak.
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5. To hold before one; to extend. [Obs.]
“His target always
over her pretended.” --Spenser.
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