Слово "pretend". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs. Macready and three servants. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked him almost at once; but on the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him, and Edmund (who was the next youngest) wanted to laugh and had to keep on pretending he was blowing his nose to hide it.

The little girl knew that there was a quarrel between her father and mother, and that her mother could not be cheerful, and that her father must be aware of this, and that he was pretending when he asked about it so lightly.

I am not going to pretend that the arrival of our anonymous letter did not leave a nasty taste in the mouth.

Addison contributed judiciously to charity, subscribed outwardly to a dull social routine, pretended to love his wife, of whom he was weary, and took his human pleasure secretly.

and pretend it's not there and hope it'll fix itself.

The strategy that all three powers are following, or pretend to themselves that they are following, is the same.

pretending that since water is coming out of the tap now, everything will be fine forever.

About halfway to the bathroom, I sort of started pretending I had a bullet in my guts.

I'm not pretending this is an exhaustive list,

I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now.

The strategy that all three powers are following, or pretend to themselves that they are following, is the same.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand...

People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was a fine excitement in a quiet country life, and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.