pretend
berpura-pura
definition
verb
I closed my eyes and pretended I was asleep
speak and act so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not.
he cannot pretend to sophistication
lay claim to (a quality or title).
adjective
the children are pouring out pretend tea for the dolls
not really what it is represented as being; used in a game or deception.
translation of 'pretend'
verb
bersandiwara,
berlaku,
berpura-pura,
memberanikan diri,
menganggap diri,
pura-pura
example
‘There is no point in having a pretend vote on a 'pretend' treaty,’ he said.
I believe that I am a complete psycho and I 'pretend' that Chase is this forsaken love that will make me all better.
Fearing the worst, he decides to 'pretend' that Germany is still the same country his mother believes in.
Jerry will 'pretend' he is not a marone, because this game is a fantasy!
I can't be the only adult to play for 'pretend' money around the Monopoly board, but at least that requires some sense of the world outside me.
He wants to see Catherine and wants her to 'pretend' that they are engaged and in a fancy Milan hotel room together.
For some reason I believed that she was going to ask me to 'pretend' that she lived in high society.
You just become someone walking around in freedom, no longer a 'pretend' celebrity with a wallet to be taxed.
There would be no safe haven for them, if the West was prepared to be an equal partner (not just a 'pretend' one).
When he does, will he play the party game and try to 'pretend' the elephants aren't there?
The dolls are to be served a 'pretend' lunch, so they each have their own striped chair and matching tiny teacup and plate.
He is a member who is given to anger, a member who can display anger and can 'pretend' anger, but underneath it actually is anger, as well.
I don't know why the 'pretend' face ruined it for me, but it did.
They ride around on 'pretend' horses while knocking coconuts together and often break into spontaneous song.
It was a huge adventure and we'd play silly games and 'pretend' we were pirates on a quest for gold.
Francis loses both daughter and wife and constructs a fantasy life to 'pretend' that Lisa is somehow still alive.
Sometimes, when I was playing in a football game, I would stare at Susan and 'pretend' she came to cheer me on.
In the home center, children prepare a 'pretend' picnic for an imaginary vacation.
Back then I used to play games and 'pretend' I was a secret agent and such.
This fantasy allows us to 'pretend' that where we are does not matter, and that what we do daily is a minor narrative that does not count.
See, I save time in the morning by not bothering to 'pretend' surprise that the Government lies.
And when you say towing mannequins, is that mannequin in the sense of, say a store dummy, basically a 'pretend' human being?
Boys and young men with 'pretend' guns were being given military drill and taught blood-curdling, screamed chants.
They could 'pretend' that they in fact had hands toughened by manual labor in the somewhat mythical Australian outback.
Imagine or 'pretend' that you are in a beautiful spot in nature looking out over a vast horizon where a wonderful future awaits you.
It was a boring time, as Dominic had to eat 'pretend' chocolate chip cookies, and drink tea.
At least on the streets there was no pretend law being bothered with in a 'pretend' way, just people puffing, victimising only themselves.
Build a fire (real or 'pretend' depending on fire restrictions) and tell stories.
We weren't marching off to conquer other countries, but to save them, for real, not for 'pretend' purposes.
The good thing about a BlackBerry is you can read a message and 'pretend' that you haven't seen it.
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