Portend vs. Pretend — What's the Difference?

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

To give a false appearance of; feign

To serve as an omen or a warning of; presage

To claim or allege insincerely or falsely

To indicate by prediction; forecast

To represent fictitiously in play; make believe

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

To take upon oneself; venture

(transitive) To signify; to denote.

To feign an action or character, as in play.

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

To lay claim

To stretch out before.

Imitation; make-believe

Indicate by signs;

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

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

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

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

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

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

To hold before one; to extend.

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

The act of engaging in pretend play.

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.

The enactment of a pretense;

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;

Imagined as in a play;