simulate

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 3.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.

   We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.

2. adjective Feigned; pretended.

Similar words

imitate copy assume reenact feign model sham replicate emulate represent

Often followed by

the a an this and those it in real

Word family

simulated simulates simulating simulation simulative