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PRETENDS
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TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
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Classic
11
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Big
11
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Super Big
11
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PRETENDS is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.
PRETENDS root PRETEND-s
Word family
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verb
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intransitiveTo speak or behave so as to give a false or simulated appearance.
- You don't have to pretend that the soup tastes fine.
- You don't have to pretend to like the soup.
- If you don't like it, say so. You don't have to pretend.
- To get into the club, he pretended to be over 18.
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intransitiveTo engage in make-believe.
- She moved her fingers across the desk, pretending to play the piano.
- She didn't have a real piano to play, so she just pretended.
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intransitivetransitiveTo feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).
- She's pretending illness to get out of the business meeting.
- He pretended an air of indifference that he'd never assumed before.
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formalintransitiveTo lay claim (to an ability, status, advantage, etc.).
- The family's exile was intended to stop them pretending to the throne.
- obsoletetransitiveTo hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
- obsoletetransitiveTo intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.
- obsoletetransitiveTo hold before one; to extend.
adjective
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Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned.
- As children we used to go on "spying" missions around the neighbour's house, but it was all pretend.
noun
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childishinformaluncountableThe act of engaging in pretend play.
- We used to dress up in our grandparents' old clothes and play pretend.