- 1[countable] a situation in which people pretend that something is true when it clearly is not synonym pretense Their whole marriage had been a charade—they had never loved each other.
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- 2charades [uncountable] a game in which one player acts out a word or title and the other players try to guess what it is Let's play charades.
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