# pretending

Pronunciation: US say "pri-TEND-ing" /pɹəˈtɛndɪŋ/; UK say "pri-TEN-ding" /pɹɪˈtɛndɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of pretend. — present participle and gerund of pretend
   - Simple: Present participle of pretend. Use this -ing form for an action happening now.
   - _By pretending to agree, he avoided a long argument with his boss._
   - _The witness was pretending complete ignorance of the whole affair._

## Noun

2. The act of imagining or make-believe; behaving as though something untrue were real.
   - Simple: The act of imagining that things are real when they are not, often for fun.
   - _Their whole afternoon dissolved into pretending, with the living room becoming a pirate ship._
   - _Pretending lets a child rehearse the roles they will one day take on._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/pretending (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).