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MAKE BELIEVE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like

Example:

She makes like an actress

Synonyms:

make; make believe; pretend

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "make believe" is one way to...):

act; play; represent (play a role or part)

Verb group:

affect; dissemble; feign; pretend; sham (make believe with the intent to deceive)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make believe"):

go through the motions (pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

make-believe (the enactment of a pretense)

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