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Perform   /pərfˈɔrm/   Listen
Perform

verb
(past & past part. performed; pres. part. performing)
1.
Carry out or perform an action.  Synonyms: do, execute.  "The skater executed a triple pirouette" , "She did a little dance"
2.
Perform a function.
3.
Give a performance (of something).  "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"
4.
Get (something) done.  Synonym: do.



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"Perform" Quotes from Famous Books



... bring your letters to Suffolk House to Jones. I shall long to hear from you; but if you should deny the only hope that's left me, I must beg you will defer it till Christmas Day be past; for, to deal freely with you, I have some devotions to perform then, which must not be disturbed with anything, and nothing is like to do it as ...
— The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 • Edward Abbott Parry
... would be plentiful; for whenever she left the house she had a respectful shadow; never close, but always in the vicinity, and remembering yesterday and the lawn-mower she now realized that the watchdog who guarded her by night had orders to perform the ...
— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham
... a boy called Luard between whom and Philip a friendship had arisen, and one day, when they were playing together in the school-room, Luard began to perform some trick with an ...
— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham
... of the Act of Union contemplated such possibility), what greater absurdity could there be than to suppose that a college of administration created for the specific purposes of such union would be competent to perform acts of sovereignty within each of those countries in matters of justice, ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... the king or queen, laying his or her hand upon the holy gospels, shall say, The things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep: so help me God. And ...
— Commentaries on the Laws of England - Book the First • William Blackstone


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