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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pɹɪˈtɛndɪd/
  • Rhymes: -ɛndɪd
  • Hyphenation: pre‧tend‧ed
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Verb

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pretended

  1. simple past and past participle of pretend

Adjective

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pretended (not comparable)

  1. feigned; counterfeit
    • 1916, Melville Davisson Post, “The Man Hunters”, in The Saturday Evening Post[1]:
      The room above the bank had been leased to a pretended tradesman.

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Verb

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pretended

  1. second-person plural imperative of pretender