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How to pronounce playact in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms act, play, roleplay
Type of perform
Has types pantomime, underplay, ham, ham it up, mime, overact, overplay, stooge, underact
Verb group play, represent, act
Derivation playacting, playactor

Examples of playact

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Bliss is an actress who's always on and continues to playact in real life.
From the dispatch.com
When he's with female friends, they playact, using wigs and high voices.
From the nytimes.com
So for a tourist to take hold of one can suggest a desire to playact.
From the theatlantic.com
Human beings have evolved to coordinate complex activities, to gossip and to playact together.
From the nytimes.com
Glowing with joy when he gets to playact for the players, he treats them like the royalty he believes actors to be.
From the signonsandiego.com
Brandt often recruited friends and family to playact as Londoners, and not always in roles they played in life.
From the lightbox.time.com
We can playact in all sorts of ways.
From the theatlantic.com
More examples
  • Act: perform on a stage or theater; "She acts in this play"; "He acted in `Julius Caesar'"; "I played in `A Christmas Carol'"
  • (playacting) acting: the performance of a part or role in a drama
  • To perform on, or as if on, a stage
  • (Play-acting) similar to diving, play acting is deceiving the officials that a player is injured to try and gain an advantage or force the referee to punish the "aggressor". Also known as feigning injury or Diving.^[177]