pose assomeone
phrasal verbwithposeverbuk/pəʊz/us/poʊz/
C2
If youposeas aparticularperson, youpretendto be thatpersoninordertodeceivepeople:
He'sposingasherdate, but he's really herbodyguard.
to act as if something is true when it is not
- pretendShe pretended not to know about the surprise.
- make believeHe's just going to make believe that things are fine in spite of the divorce.
- play at somethingUKThe children are playing at cops and robbers.
- role-playDuring class, we role-played being a customer and a salesperson to learn words related to shopping.
- fakeShe's only faking being ill.
- feignThe police questioned him about the break-in, but he feigned ignorance.
Faking & pretending
- affect
- air guitar
- assume
- believe
- changeling
- charlatan
- cry
- false
- false modesty
- falsifiable
- falsify
- feign
- massage
- mountebank
- out-bluff
- passsomethingoff assomething
- phoney
- professed
- purport
- quack