make believe

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Noun Phrase
• HYPHEN: make be=lieve

CIDE DICTIONARY

make believe, v. i. 

 To pretend; -- often used with that, but often having the that omitted; as, he made believe he didn't hear her; or he made believe that he didn't hear her.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

make believe

act, act a part, affect, affected, apocryphal, apparition, artificial, assume, assumed, bastard, bluff, bogus, brainchild, brummagem, bubble, charade, chimera, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited, cover up, delirium, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, distorted, dressed up, dummy, eidolon, embellished, embroidered, ersatz, fabulous, factitious, fake, faked, falsified, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, feign, feigned, fiction, fictional, fictitious, fictive, figment, figmental, four-flush, gammon, garbled, hallucination, idle fancy, illegitimate, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, imitation, insubstantial image, invention, junky, legendary, let on, let on like, maggot, make a pretense, make as if, make like, man-made, mock, myth, mythic, mythicized, mythified, mythological, nonactual, nonfactual, nonrealistic, pageant, perverted, phantasm, phantom, phony, pinchbeck, play, play a part, play possum, playact, pretend, pretended, pretension, pretentiousness, profess, pseudo, put on, put-on, quasi, queer, romance, self-styled, sham, shoddy, sick fancy, simulate, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious, supposititious, synthetic, thick-coming fancies, tin, tinsel, titivated, trip, twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, vapor, vision, warped, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams

ROGET THESAURUS

make believe

Falsehood

VB be false, be a liar, speak falsely, tell a lie, lie, fib, lie like a trooper, swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness, misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent, belie, falsify, pervert, distort, put a false construction upon (misinterpret), prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, palter, palter to the understanding, repondre en Normand, trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to, give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon, color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider, varnish right and puzzle wrong, exaggerate, blague, invent, fabricate, trump up, get up, force, fake, hatch, concoct, romance, cry 'wolf!', dissemble, dissimulate, feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe, play possum, play false, play a double game, coquet, act a part, play a part, affect, simulate, pass off for, counterfeit, sham, make a show of, malinger, say the grapes are sour, cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror, hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors, commend the poisoned chalice to the lips, ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces, deceive.