00838786-v 'pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it'; V1; 
 
English go through the motions
Japanese 形だけする
Definitions
Japanese
何かを本当にしているかのようにすることで何かをしているふりをする
彼女は実際には働いていない−−働いているふりをしているだけだ
English
pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it
She isn't really working--she's just going through the motions
Relations
Hypernym: make
Semantic Field: communicationv
Verb Frames
Somebody ----s;  
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SUMO: ⊂ Pretending

TempoWN: (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.001; Future: 0.313)

SentiWN: (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: (+0.38 -0.00)


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