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pretended en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /pɹɪˈtɛndɪd/
  • (US) audio

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) feigned; counterfeit
    • The room above the bank had been leased to a pretended tradesman. 1916, Melville Davisson Post, “The Man Hunters”, in The Saturday Evening Post:

Deriveds

pretendedly · unpretended

pretended en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /pɹɪˈtɛndɪd/
  • (US) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of pretend
    form of pretend