Word "PRETEND" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
behave unnaturally or affectedly
Synonyms:
act, dissemble

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the enactment of a pretense
Synonyms:
make-believe
Examples:
it was just pretend

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
Synonyms:
make, make believe

Crossword Clues for PRETEND

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Feign (7) The Guardian Quick 29 Aug 2025
What kids with active imaginations might play
Fake before care (7)
Pose shown by pair with English nurse (7)
Assume or lie (7)
Make believe LA Times Daily 28 May 2025
Make believe New York Times 04 May 2025
Make believe Commuter 25 Apr 2025
Make out Peter's broke and suffered a loss (7)
Feign to nurse beforehand (7)
Peter, upset and topless, would fake it (7)
To sham, fake (7)
Make believe Commuter 05 Apr 2025
Put on an act... or a word that ends in "end"
Make out to be soft and tender: phoney (7)
As before, be inclined to give a false impression (7)
Parented, without a contrived feign (7)
Act foolishly, repent getting drunk at premiere (7)
In advance one will incline to feign it (7)
Fake rep upset nurse Mirror Cryptic 09 Dec 2024
Make believe Mirror Quick 09 Dec 2024
Make believe to be a claimant (7)
Make-believe: - to be someone else
Falsely claim cardinal died after prior The Telegraph Toughie 24 Oct 2024
Imagine page ten presented in colour (7)
Pair first to employ nurse put on a false front (7)
Fake it
Dubiously claim to nurse beforehand (7)
...fake X post before date
Behave unnaturally in front of nurse (7)
Put on before mid-morning, perhaps, by daughter
To feign (7)
To sham (7)
Play-act Mirror Classic 26 Jul 2024
Care beforehand? You can just imagine it (7)
Claim falsely prior to care (7)
Make believe, for fun Newsday 17 Jun 2024
Start of a hypothetical New York Times 31 May 2024
Porter regularly ignored nurse's kid The Telegraph Cryptic 21 May 2024
Purport to care for in advance (7)
Pressure on nurse to present claim The Sun Two Speed 13 May 2024
Make-believe The Sun Two Speed 13 May 2024
To make believe
Play make-believe (7)
Act nine or younger, daughter!
Put on an act in front of nurse
Imagined odds of perfect finish
Simulated pressure on nurse The Times Quick Cryptic 10 Apr 2024
Prescient beginners are inclined to fake it (7)
Put on an act... or a word that ends in "end"
End in a pert way and then make believe things are different (7)
Fake groom died introducing tango
Make believe The Times Concise 01 Feb 2024
Song that gave Nat 'King' Cole and Alvin Stardust top ten hits in 1953 and 1981 respectively
Could this suggest daughter only nine? Imagine! The Guardian Cryptic 18 Dec 2023
Could this suggest daughter only nine? Imagine! (7)
Gloss over
Imaginary priest is missing finale (7)
Fake The Times Concise 24 Sep 2023
What all actors have to do Family Time 13 Jun 2023
What all actors do Family Time 11 Jun 2023
Producer initially embarrassed about number put on The Times Cryptic 27 Dec 2021
Make believe The Telegraph Quick 29 Aug 2021
Pressure on nurse to carry on sham The Sun Two Speed 04 Apr 2021
Make-believe The Sun Two Speed 04 Apr 2021
Put on pressure dealing with nurse
Pressure on nurse to simulate The Sun Two Speed 17 Dec 2020
Feign Eugene Sheffer 25 Nov 2020
Pressure on nurse to fake it The Sun Two Speed 15 Jun 2020
Info for a bibliophile New York Times 02 Oct 2019
Allege darling's concealing a little romp and break off
Make believe The Times Concise 29 Jul 2019
Just imagine New York Times 28 Apr 2019
Make believe Irish Times Simplex 05 Apr 2019
Priest is out to stop make-believe The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Feb 2019
Just imagine
Act as if
Imagine young child, daughter, lacking a little energy The Telegraph Toughie 13 Dec 2018
Imagine being before nurse The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Apr 2018
Act The Sun Two Speed 30 Mar 2018
Lay claim before nurse The Sun Two Speed 30 Mar 2018
Fake it before nurse?
Put on pressure to split, film's captured
Feign The Telegraph Quick 19 Aug 2017
One-liner, part 5 LA Times Daily 16 Jun 2017
One-liner, part 5 The Washington Post 16 Jun 2017
Make-believe The Times Concise 09 Jan 2017
One-liner, part 5
Power concerned with minister is imaginary The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Sep 2016
Fake it Newsday 26 Feb 2016
Let on USA Today 25 Jan 2016
Fake The Sun Two Speed 18 Jan 2016
Let on
Make believe The Washington Post 25 Nov 2015
Put on an act before nurse
Make believe
Make believe
Make out the French ready to stop
Sham
Put up a front
Make believe
Play nurse first?
Role-play, say
Make-believe
Fake it
Playact, say
Role-play, say
Make believe
Fake it
Fake it
Sham
Sham
Feign
Feign
Simulated
Make believe
Feign
Let on
Feign
Where you'll find LA: North Dakota? Not true!
Producer initially embarrassed about number put on
Fake it
Fake it
Act
Make believe
Feign
Feign
Simulate
Play a role
Put in a claim (with "to").
Sham.
Feign.
Simulate.
"Let's ___" (child's favorite)
Make believe.
Imaginary: Colloq.
"Let's ___."
Escape reality.
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