"pretending" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pretendings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} pretending (usually uncountable, plural pretendings)
  1. The act of imagining; make-believe. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: pretend#Noun[childspeak]]> Translations (act of imagining): teeskentely (Finnish), притворство (pritvorstvo) [neuter] (Russian), artistaje [Cuba, masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-pretending-en-noun-ZKPzt6Mt

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} pretending
  1. present participle and gerund of pretend Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: pretend
    Sense id: en-pretending-en-verb-jo1GgHji Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 27 73 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 25 75 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 14 86

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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