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purportpur‧port1 /pɜːˈpɔːt $ pɜːrˈpɔːrt/ verb [intransitive, transitive] VERB TABLEpurport |
Present | I, you, we, they | purport | | he, she, it | purports | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | purported | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have purported | | he, she, it | has purported | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had purported | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will purport | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have purported |
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Present | I | am purporting | | he, she, it | is purporting | | you, we, they | are purporting | Past | I, he, she, it | was purporting | | you, we, they | were purporting | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been purporting | | he, she, it | has been purporting | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been purporting | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be purporting | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been purporting |
- Clearing the house after a relative died, I came across what purports to be a passport to Hay-on-Wye.
- It is true that this model does not purport to describe accurately the way in which the market economy actually functions.
- Such books purport to present the past ` as it was', taking for granted that this is what photographs do.
- The relationship between an image and the reality it purports to represent is, according to many contemporary critics, inherently political.
- Wasn't Rune Christensen as much a player of games as the man he purported to despise?
- Wolfgang von Goethe, recently liberated from his university studies of law, visited Ensisheim in 1771 to see the purported meteorite.
formal to claim to be or do something, even if this is not truepurport to do something Two undercover officers purporting to be dealers infiltrated the gang.be purported to be something The document is purported to be 300 years old.—purportedly adverb: a portrait purportedly of Shakespeare |