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pose Definition

• (n) affected manners intended to impress others; "don''t put on airs with me"
• (n) a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes
• (n) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
• (v) introduce; "This poses an interesting question"
• (v) assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don''t know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
• (v) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar''s daughter"
• (v) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don''t pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself"
• (v) put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
• (v) be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don''t know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"

pose Synonyms

• affectation
• affectedness
• airs
• amaze
• baffle
• beat
• bewilder
• dumbfound
• flummox
• get
• gravel
• impersonate
• lay
• mannerism
• model
• mystify
• nonplus
• perplex
• personate
• place
• pose
• position
• posture
• present
• put
• puzzle
• set
• sit
• stick
• stupefy
• vex