intransitive. To behave, comport oneself; to have (a particular) behaviour or appearance; to make as though, to pretend. Also with cognate object to…

intransitive. To act or speak falsely, use false pretences; to beg on false pretences.

intransitive. To feign, make pretence, practise deceit.

absol. or intransitive. To practise dissimulation; = dissemble, v.1 4.

intransitive. To pretend, make oneself appear. Const. to with infinitive †Formerly with the same constructions as the reflexive use above.

intransitive. With infinitive. To appear or seem (to be or do something); to affect, profess, pretend; to be seen evidently to be or do something. Obs…

To feign, pretend. intransitive. Obsolete. rare.

Followed by as though, as if, that; To act so as to cause an expectation or belief; to pretend. Also to let fare. Obsolete.

intransitive and transitive. To simulate or feign.

absol. or intransitive. To conceal one's intentions, opinions, etc. under a feigned guise; ‘to use false professions, to play the hypocrite’…

intransitive. To make pretence; to engage in make-believe or simulation; to feign.

intransitive. Chiefly with infinitive. To set about, make an attempt to do something; to pretend; to manage, contrive. Also: to engage in an…

intransitive. To pretend, dissemble. Obsolete.

intransitive. To bend the body adroitly (without any notion of dodging). figurative. To cringe, fawn; to dissemble.

transitive. = pretend, v. (in various senses).

intransitive. To dissemble. Obsolete.

transitive. In a bad sense. with object clause, or absol. To feign, pretend.

intransitive. Used for dissemble, v.1

absol. To feign, dissemble. Obsolete. rare.

To feign, simulate. rare.

intransitive. To play the fox, dissemble, sham. Now dialect and slang.

intransitive. To make false pretences; to pretend to be, do, etc. what one is not, does not, does not… Followed by an adjective complement.

intransitive. To practise dissimulation, to dissemble.

intransitive. To feign, pretend. Frequently with complement, esp. an infinitive clause. Now chiefly Australian.

To pretend. Originally dialect and U.S.

intransitive. To pretend or feign.

intransitive. To ‘play possum’; to pretend to be ill, dead, asleep, etc.

(intransitive) to pretend.

colloquial (originally U.S.). to put on an act: to behave insincerely, to act a part, to pretend.

to put on (also up) a show: to behave deceptively, pretend; to put on an act; spec. to assume a guise of happiness, confidence, etc., which…

intransitive. U.S. slang. In African-American usage: to act coyly; to feign rejection, as a method of seduction. Also transitive: to feign…