as though
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /əzˈðəʊ/
Conjunction
as though
- As to suggest the idea that; as if, as would be true if.
- I felt sick, as though I'd just eaten a dozen bad oysters.
- She reached out, as though to touch my face.
- It always seemed as though we'd get married.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
- But the tall tower, with its four- faced clock, rose as majestically and uncompromisingly as though the land had never been subjugated.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
- "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. […] A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.
- #* 15 October 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup”, in The Guardian:
- By that stage Townsend, playing again as though immune to any form of nerves, had curled a lovely, left-footed effort against the crossbar and Welbeck had slashed a shot wide from a position when he really should have done better.
Synonyms
- like
Translations
as to suggest that
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