"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)
    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, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 23 77

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSONL data for pretending meaning in English (1.8kB)

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