The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PRETEND
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result PRETEND
- Put on pressure dealing with nurse
- Put on pressure to split, film’s captured
- Put on an act before nurse
- Make out the French ready to stop
- Play nurse first?
- Imagine young child, daughter, lacking a little energy
- Priest is out to stop make-believe
- Imagine being before nurse
- Power concerned with minister is imaginary
- Behave unnaturally before nurse
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What does PRETEND mean?
PRETEND verb- 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.