pretend
ڈرامہ
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
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example
For some reason I believed that she was going to ask me to 'pretend' that she lived in high society.
There would be no safe haven for them, if the West was prepared to be an equal partner (not just a 'pretend' one).
As long as we're playing make believe, why not 'pretend' that plot matters.
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.
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.
‘There is no point in having a pretend vote on a 'pretend' treaty,’ he said.
Not that I'll be wiping pretend crude oil off 'pretend' sea gulls, you understand.
He fondly recalls his first foray into musicals being a show about a snowman in which he had to throw pieces of paper as 'pretend' snow.
Before we knew it, it was time to say goodnight - the 'pretend' goodnight before the encore - so we knew there was more.
I am glad that he knows when to 'pretend' fear; it might save his non-life some day.
They ride around on 'pretend' horses while knocking coconuts together and often break into spontaneous song.
They could 'pretend' that they in fact had hands toughened by manual labor in the somewhat mythical Australian outback.
At least on the streets there was no pretend law being bothered with in a 'pretend' way, just people puffing, victimising only themselves.
I don't know why the 'pretend' face ruined it for me, but it did.
The dolls are to be served a 'pretend' lunch, so they each have their own striped chair and matching tiny teacup and plate.
Jerry will 'pretend' he is not a marone, because this game is a fantasy!
I believe that I am a complete psycho and I 'pretend' that Chase is this forsaken love that will make me all better.
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.
In the home center, children prepare a 'pretend' picnic for an imaginary vacation.
Fearing the worst, he decides to 'pretend' that Germany is still the same country his mother believes in.
And when you say towing mannequins, is that mannequin in the sense of, say a store dummy, basically a 'pretend' human being?
Francis loses both daughter and wife and constructs a fantasy life to 'pretend' that Lisa is somehow still alive.
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.
Imagine or 'pretend' that you are in a beautiful spot in nature looking out over a vast horizon where a wonderful future awaits you.
He wants to see Catherine and wants her to 'pretend' that they are engaged and in a fancy Milan hotel room together.
It was a huge adventure and we'd play silly games and 'pretend' we were pirates on a quest for gold.
It was a boring time, as Dominic had to eat 'pretend' chocolate chip cookies, and drink tea.
When he does, will he play the party game and try to 'pretend' the elephants aren't there?
Boys and young men with 'pretend' guns were being given military drill and taught blood-curdling, screamed chants.
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