Definition of "playacts" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of playact. (verb)

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• "Perhaps you can't entirely relate to a family that not only re-reads but also quotes and playacts Homerian epics, but, really, we're not that strange."
• "Like Prospero in a later romance (The Tempest), Simonides playacts the jealous father only to make the resolution of courtship all the more joyous."