pretended

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

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pretended

1. simple past and past participle of pretend

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.

pretended

1. second-person plural imperative of pretender