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- verb Used other than as an idiom: see
put ,on . - verb To
don (clothing, equipment, or the like). - verb To
fool ,kid ,deceive . - verb To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretence.
- verb To
play (arecording ). - verb To initiate
cooking orwarming , especially on astovetop . - verb To
perform for an audience.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective adopted in order to deceive
- verb carry out (performances)
- verb add to the odometer
- verb put on the stove or ready for cooking
- verb apply to a surface
- verb fool or hoax
- verb add to something existing
- verb prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance
- verb put clothing on one's body
- verb increase (one's body weight)
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synonyms (385)
Words with the same meaning
- Parthian shot
- accelerate
- act
- act a part
- administer
- affect
- affectation
- affected
- affectedness
- airs
- airs and graces
- apocryphal
- apply
- apply to
- artificial
- artificiality
- assume
- assumed
- back answer
- banter
- barge in
- bastard
- be a gas
- be a hit
- befool
- bestow
- bet
- bill
- blanket
- block
- bluff
- bogus
- bomb
- break in
- break in upon
- brummagem
- burden with
- burst in
- butt in
- canopy
- caustic remark
- chaff
- change
- charge
- charge in
- cheat
- clinquant
- cloak
- clothe
- cloud
- colorable
- colored
- come between
- comeback
- cope
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- cover
- cover up
- cowl
- crack
- crack on
- crash
- crash in
- crash the gates
- creep in
- crowd in
- curtain
- cut
- cut in
- cutting remark
- deceit
- deceive
- deception
- demand
- dig
- disguise
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- distorted
- do a bit
- don
- dose
- dose with
- dramatize
- draw on
- dress in
- dressed up
- dummy
- dump
- dupe
- eclipse
- edge in
- elbow in
- embellished
- embroidered
- encroach
- enforce upon
- engage
- enjoin
- entrench
- ersatz
- exact
- facade
- face
- factitious
- fail
- fake
- faked
- fakement
- false
- false front
- false show
- falsified
- fasten upon
- feature
- feign
- feigned
- feigned belief
- fictitious
- fictive
- film
- fleer
- flop
- flout
- foist in
- foist on
- foolery
- force
- force upon
- forgery
- four-flush
- frame-up
- fraud
- freight with
- front
- gain ground
- gamble
- game
- gammon
- garbled
- get into
- get on
- gibe
- gibing retort
- give
- give a boost
- give a lift
- gull
- hasten
- haze
- headline
- help up
- hire
- histrionize
- hoax
- hood
- horn in
- horse
- humbug
- hurry up
- hypocrisy
- hypocritical
- illegitimate
- image
- imitation
- impinge
- impose
- impose on
- impose upon
- impostor
- infatuate
- infiltrate
- inflict on
- inflict upon
- infringe
- insincerity
- insinuate
- interfere
- interlope
- interpose
- intervene
- intrude
- invade
- irrupt
- jab
- jape
- jeer
- jest
- jive
- joke
- jolly
- josh
- junk
- junky
- kid
- lay
- lay on
- lay over
- leg-pull
- let on
- let on like
- levy
- look big
- make a hit
- make a pretense
- make as if
- make believe
- make like
- make out like
- make-believe
- man-made
- mannered
- mannerism
- mantle
- mask
- masquerade
- melodramatize
- mere show
- mete out to
- mock
- mount
- muffle
- needle
- obduce
- obscure
- obtrude
- occult
- open
- open a show
- open the throttle
- overact
- overlay
- overspread
- parting shot
- pass off on
- pass the buck
- paste
- perverted
- phony
- pick up speed
- pinchbeck
- place
- play
- play a part
- play a scene
- play on
- play possum
- playact
- pontificate
- pose
- posed
- premiere
- prescribe for
- present
- press in
- presume upon
- pretend
- pretended
- pretense
- pretension
- preview
- produce
- profess
- prunes and prisms
- pseudo
- public image
- pull
- push in
- put
- put across
- put down
- put on airs
- put on side
- put on steam
- put over
- put upon
- put-down
- put-up job
- putting on airs
- quasi
- queer
- quicken
- quip
- race
- rag
- rally
- razz
- rev
- rib
- ride
- rip-off
- ritz it
- roast
- rude reproach
- rush in
- saddle with
- scenarize
- scoff
- screen
- scum
- scurrility
- self-styled
- sell
- set
- set the stage
- sham
- shield
- shift the blame
- shift the responsibility
- shoddy
- short answer
- show
- simulacrum
- simulate
- simulated
- slam
- slap
- slink in
- slip in
- slip on
- smash in
- sneak in
- so-called
- soi-disant
- speed up
- spoof
- spread over
- spurious
- squeeze in
- stage
- stake
- star
- steal in
- step on it
- step up
- storm in
- strike
- stultify
- stylishness
- subject to
- succeed
- superimpose
- superpose
- supposititious
- swank
- swell
- swell it
- swindle
- swipe
- synthetic
- take advantage of
- take on
- task
- taunt
- tax
- tease
- theatricalize
- throng in
- thrust in
- tin
- tinsel
- titivated
- trench
- trespass
- try out
- tug the heartstrings
- twisted
- twit
- unauthentic
- ungenuine
- unnatural
- unnaturalness
- unreal
- veil
- verbal thrust
- wager
- warped
- wear
- weight down with
- whited sepulcher
- work in
- work on
- worm in
- yoke with
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