Portend vs. Pretend

Portendverb

(transitive) To serve as a warning or omen of.

Portendverb

(transitive) To signify; to denote.

Portendverb

To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; - now used esp. of unpropitious signs.

Portendverb

To stretch out before.

Portendverb

indicate by signs;

Portendverb

be a sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous or calamitous) is likely to happen

Pretendverb

To claim, to allege, especially when falsely or as a form of deliberate deception.

Pretendverb

To feign, affect (a state, quality, etc.).

Pretendverb

To lay claim to (an ability, status, advantage, etc.). (originally used without to)

Pretendverb

To make oneself appear to do or be doing something; to engage in make-believe.

Pretendverb

To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.

Pretendverb

To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.

Pretendverb

To hold before one; to extend.

Pretendadjective

Not really what it is represented as being; imaginary, feigned.

Pretendverb

To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

Pretendverb

To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.

Pretendverb

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.

Pretendverb

To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.

Pretendverb

To hold before one; to extend.

Pretendverb

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.

Pretendverb

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.

Pretendnoun

the enactment of a pretense;

Pretendverb

make believe with the intent to deceive;

Pretendverb

behave unnaturally or affectedly;

Pretendverb

put forward a claim and assert right or possession of;

Pretendverb

put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation;

Pretendverb

represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like;

Pretendverb

state insincerely;

Pretendadjective

imagined as in a play;