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Answer for the clue "As if ", 9 letters:
as though

Word definitions for as though in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
conj. As to suggest the idea that; as if, as would be true if.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
as \as\ ([a^]z), adv. & conj. [OE. as, als, alse, also, al swa, AS. eal sw[=a], lit. all so; hence, quite so, quite as: cf. G. als as, than, also so, then. See Also .] Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same ...

Usage examples of as though.

Only one person had ever looked at him as though she saw beneath his skin, into his very heart and mind: Hadassah.

He came off the couch with the swiftness of a powerful animal and gripped the wall as though he would leap over it to the dirt compound below.

He grasped hold of her finger, his mouth working as though he nursed even in his dreams.

His eyes were fixed on her as though he had heard her coming along the outer corridor and had been expecting her.

Surprised, she felt his grip relax as though her words had relieved his troubled thoughts.

She had covered herself quickly, draping the shawl across her and Caleb as though forming some kind of protective barrier against him.

Barnabas stopped screaming as though someone had grabbed him by the throat and squeezed off his air.

He was free, and yet he still felt as though he had his back against a wall.

Her eyes shone with joy as she patted his cheek as though he were a boy and not a weathered soldier.

It was as though whoever had written them had looked into his very heart.

Shuddering, he shook his head as though to dispell the feeling of the dream.

He studied her as she came to him, taking in each feature as though he had never seen her before and was trying to read who she was by the way she looked.

It was as though someone watched them and kept pace silently among the trees.

For a heartbeat it was as though all of creation had stilled, then came a soft whisper of wind.

Her gaze swept the crowd as though searching for someone and came to rest upon Rizpah.