simulateverb [ T ]
uk/ˈsɪm.jə.leɪt/us/ˈsɪm.jə.leɪt/to do or make something that looks real but is not real:
In cheap furniture, plastic is often used to simulate wood.
formal Ruth simulated pleasure at seeing Sam, but really she wished he hadn't come.
The computer simulates (= represents) different road conditions for new drivers to practise on.
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- falsify
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- phoney
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- professed
- purport
- quack
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simulated
adjective uk/ˈsɪm.jə.leɪ.tɪd/us/ˈsɪm.jə.leɪ.t̬ɪd/