- to engage in make-believe.
- to be insincere or affected in speech, manner, etc.: It's hard to get away with playacting with members of one's own family.
- to perform in a play.
- to dramatize (something): They playacted the movements of a burglar.
- to pretend or make believe
- to behave in an overdramatic or affected manner
- to act in or as in (a play)
