Pretend

1. v. i. To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep.
2. v. t. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
3. v. t. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
4. v. t. 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.
5. v. t. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.
6. v. t. To hold before one; to extend.
7. v. i. To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; — usually with to.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.