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 pretending
 (a.)假裝的,偽稱的,嬌飾的

 Pre·tend v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pretended; p. pr. & vb. n. Pretending.]
 1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
    Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend.   --Dryden.
 2. To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden. [R.]
 Lest that too heavenly form, pretended
 To hellish falsehood, snare them.   --Milton.
 3. 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.
 This let him know,
 Lest, willfully transgressing, he pretend
 Surprisal.   --Milton.
 4. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. [Obs.]
 Such as shall pretend
 Malicious practices against his state.   --Shak.
 5. To hold before one; to extend. [Obs.] “His target always over her pretended.”

 pretending
      n : the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was
          only pretending" [syn: pretense, pretence, simulation,
           feigning]