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Act out   /ækt aʊt/   Listen
Act out

verb
1.
Represent an incident, state, or emotion by action, especially on stage.
2.
Act out; represent or perform as if in a play.  Synonyms: enact, reenact.






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"Act out" Quotes from Famous Books



... him, Handy whispered: "Keep still! and act out your fit and I'll pull you through." Then addressing those about him, he said: "Will some one of you gentlemen kindly fetch a glass of ice water and a little brandy? This is a bad case, I'm afraid. A ...
— A Pirate of Parts • Richard Neville

... appeal not by the use of songs, but because the voices are very fine. Such an act may use a few gags and unrelated jokes—perhaps of the "nut" variety—to take the act out of the pure duet class ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page

... understand at a word. The wind comes down from the pine trees on the mountain, and snow comes down after the wind. The dream tells of my glory, I am loth to wake from the dream. I hear the waves running in the evening tide, as when I was with Heike. Shall I act out the old ballad? ...
— Certain Noble Plays of Japan • Ezra Pound

... disturbance of normal conditions as great in one class of society as in another, that a confirmed inebriate, when under the influence of intoxicants, lost all idea of respectability or moral responsibility, and would act out his insane passion, whether he were a lawyer, an army officer or a hod-carrier. In other words, that social position gave the wife of an inebriate no immunity from personal violence when alone with her ...
— Danger - or Wounded in the House of a Friend • T. S. Arthur

... are in the main those which seem more passive, more troubled with physical inertia, more contemplative when a little older, less apt in learning to act out new movements, less quick at taking ...
— The Story of the Mind • James Mark Baldwin


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