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Sentence: 単なる自殺か？ 自殺に見せ掛けた 他殺か？

Question: What is the function of the particle に in 自殺に見せ掛けた ?
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grammar particles particle-に
自殺に見せ掛ける - Particle に
AをBに見せ掛ける means "to make A appear to be B", "to pretend A is B", "to show A as
B", etc. Grammatically, this に is either "to; into" (resultant state marker)
or "as" ([role marker](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/82916/5010)), but
basically this particle choice is something you have to memorize along with
the verb 見せ掛ける itself.

> 他殺を自殺に見せ掛ける  
>  to make a murder look like a suicide

> 自殺に見せ掛けた他殺 (relative clause)  
>  a murder which someone made to look like a suicide  
>  a murder disguised as a suicide
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