Pretend is valid Scrabble Word

Is pretend a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is pretend valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for PRETEND in dictionary:

VERB:

to make believe
behave so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not
engage in an imaginative game or fantasy
give the appearance of feeling or possessing (an emotion or quality); simulate
lay claim to (a quality or title)
claim (something untrue)
To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.
To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.
To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.

To hold before one; to extend.
To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to.
To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep.
make believe with the intent to deceive
behave unnaturally or affectedly
put forward a claim and assert right or possession of
put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
state insincerely

NOUN:

the enactment of a pretense

ADJECTIVE:

not really what it is represented as being; imaginary
imagined as in a play
fanciful

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to assume or display a false appearance of

Words related to PRETEND

fayne11 feign9 pretended13 pretending14 pretends11

Words that contain PRETEND

pretends11 pretended13 pretender12 pretendant13 pretendent13 pretenders13 pretending14 pretendants14 pretendedly18 pretendents14 pretendingly19 unpretending16 pretendership21 pretenderships22 unpretendingly21

How to use PRETEND in a sentence

If you believe at all that God made the world, it is folly to pretend to set any bounds to his power.
She did not pretend to be a friend of women, though she was nice to them if they did not interfere with her and there was nothing better to do.
What the event of these unparalleled times will be no mortal can pretend to foresee.
Style receives its beauty from the thought expressed, while with those writers who only pretend to think it is their thoughts that are said to be fine because of their style.
The wise woman, consulted again, told Janni to take the child and pretend to lay it on the fire, when his wife would speak.
Poor, helpless man! it was a little hard to have to pretend an interest and tenderness you did not feel.
Although I have always loved stories of giant-killers, from David downwards, and should much like to write one, I cannot in this case pretend that Mr.
It would be just like them, he thought, to pretend they were dead, so that he might come in and get caught.
And yet we used to pretend to feast with her there.
It is a delicate matter for a stranger to the practical working of your institutions, like myself, to pretend to give an opinion as to the organisation of your governing power.

We shall not have to pretend that all our friends are great artists, because they will make no such pretence themselves.
I pretend to feel flattered by his anxiety to secure me as his guest.
My father may wed me to thee, but I will never love thee, nor say it, nor pretend it.
I do not pretend that natural-history knowledge, as such, can increase our sense of the beautiful in natural objects.
Those who pretend to have been of the party tell so many different stories, as to destroy the credit of them all.
It is a misconception to pretend that he was a precursor of the Darwinian theory.
Of course, in a little manual like the present we cannot pretend to exhibit the literature of our subject.
I do not pretend to certain knowledge in these matters.
I cannot pretend to inform our generals through what gradations of danger they should train their men to fortitude.
Why not pretend to play into her hand? It would prove to both Dicky and her that I was indifferent to their close friendship.
He did not pretend to play the flute, though he could.
Finally a bright idea came to me, and I determined to fix myself up like the worst old tramp going, and pretend to be sick, as well as out of funds.
No amount of sound constitutes an echo, but for all that no one would pretend that an echo is something of totally different nature from a sound.
The democratic movement in Japan, China and Russia in Asia has sympathetically affected India, and it is idle to pretend that it will cease to affect her.
In the evening, when he returns home, lie in wait for him and pretend that you will slay him.
Of course I do not pretend that all are saving money or getting homes.
Only to dress up and pretend to be people from her own part of the world coming to see her and to bring her news.
To make it of stone is to pretend that the form is something of itself.
No one will pretend that protection can increase the aggregate of these qualities in the labor of the country.

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