1. Soutenir. Il prétend que c'est vrai.
2. Se flatter de. Il prétend nous faire taire.
1. To ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example.
2. To assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing.
3. To demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to; SYN. lay claim, arrogate.
4. To lay claim to; as of an idea; SYN. take.
5. To take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; SYN. take, call for, exact.
1. To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
2. To represent falsely; to present as true or real something untrue or unreal; to show hypocritically, or for the purpose.of deceiving; to simulate; to feign
3. To make believe, to engage in fictional play.
1. To promise, as in religious orders; take a vow.
2. To claim to be proficient.
3. To confess one's faith in, or allegiance to