Usually means: Behaves as if something is.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. pretends: Merriam-Webster
  2. pretends: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pretends: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pretends, pretends: Wordnik
  5. pretends: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pretends: Wiktionary
  7. pretends: Dictionary.com
  8. pretends: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. pretends: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretends: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretends: Idioms

(Note: See pretend as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pretend)

verb:  (intransitive or with 'that' clause or 'to' infinitive) To speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
verb:  To engage in make-believe.
verb:  (transitive) To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
verb:  (intransitive with 'to', formal, originally transitive) To lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To hold before one; to extend.
adjective:  Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned.
noun:  (childish, informal) The act of engaging in pretend play.
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