pretend+not+to+see

  • 1pretend not to see — index ignore Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2pretend — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. sham, feign, dissemble, simulate; counterfeit, lie, fake; claim, aver. See falsehood. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To feign] Syn. feign, affect, simulate, claim falsely, profess, make a pretense, imitate,… …

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  • 3pretend — /pri tend /, v.t. 1. to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong. 2. to appear falsely, as to deceive; feign: to pretend to go to sleep. 3. to make believe: The children pretended …

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  • 4pretend — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French pretendre, from Latin praetendere to allege as an excuse, literally, to stretch out, from prae pre + tendere to stretch more at thin Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to give a false… …

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  • 5pretend — pre•tend [[t]prɪˈtɛnd[/t]] v. 1) to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so; claim: pretending that nothing is wrong[/ex] 2) to put forward a false appearance of, as to deceive; feign: to pretend illness[/ex] 3) to make believe: The …

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  • 6Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance — Evangelion 2 redirects here. For the 2003 video game, see Shinseiki Evangelion 2: Evangelions. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance The Japanese film poster is nearly identical to that of the first film but adds Asuka and Mari to the artwork …

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  • 7Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie — ( Ne m enterrez pas dans la prairie solitaire en français) est une chanson traditionnelle de cow boy. Aussi connue sous le nom de The Cow boy Lament ( La lamentation du cow boy ), The Dying Cow boy ( Le Cow boy mourant ), cette chanson est la… …

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  • 8Turn a blind eye — pretend not to see; avoid noticing that which one should oppose or condemn …

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  • 9cut — cut1 [ kʌt ] (past tense and past participle cut) verb *** ▸ 1 use knife/sharp tool ▸ 2 have ability to cut ▸ 3 injure part of body ▸ 4 reduce/lower ▸ 5 on computer ▸ 6 stop something moving/working ▸ 7 make something shorter ▸ 8 divide playing… …

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  • 10wink at — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. connive, pass over, gloss over, condone, pretend not to see, excuse, permit, forgive, turn a blind eye toward. Ant. censure*, frown upon, revile. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To pretend not to see: blink (at), connive at …

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