make believe
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
She makes like an actress
Types & categories
- act hypernym
- go through the motions hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | pretend |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | pretend |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | act |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | go through the motions |