perform
to go through or execute in the proper, customary, or established manner: to perform the marriage ceremony.
to carry into effect; fulfill: Perform what you promise.
to enact (a play, part, etc.), as on the stage, in movies, or on television.
to render (music), as by playing or singing.
to accomplish (any action involving skill or ability), as before an audience: to perform a juggling act.
to complete.
to exhibit behaviors associated with (a particular social role or identity): This study investigates the ways in which biracial Americans perform race in their day-to-day lives.
to behave in ways that exhibit (a socially acceptable belief, trait, or quality), often merely for show: Nineteenth-century British women found in the antislavery movement a perfect way to perform empathy.
to fulfill a command, promise, or undertaking.
to execute or do something.
to act in a play: to perform in the role of Romeo.
to perform music.
to go through any performance.
(of loans, investments, etc.) to yield a profit; earn income.
to have sexual intercourse: I could not perform in my first intimate encounter with the love of my life.
Origin of perform
1synonym study For perform
Other words for perform
Other words from perform
- per·form·a·ble, adjective
- per·form·er, noun
- mis·per·form, verb
- o·ver·per·form, verb
- re·per·form, verb (used with object)
- self-per·formed, adjective
- un·per·form·a·ble, adjective
- un·per·formed, adjective
- un·per·form·ing, adjective
- well-per·formed, adjective
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How to use perform in a sentence
There is an impatience of toil—of its duration at least—in the southern mind, which leaves it too frequently unperforming.
Confession | W. Gilmore Simms
British Dictionary definitions for perform
/ (pəˈfɔːm) /
to carry out or do (an action)
(tr) to fulfil or comply with: to perform someone's request
to present or enact (a play, concert, etc) before or otherwise entertain an audience: the group performed Hamlet
(intr) informal to accomplish sexual intercourse: he performed well
Origin of perform
1Derived forms of perform
- performable, adjective
- performer, noun
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