Antonyms for enacting
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : en-akt |
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈækt |
Definition of enacting
Origin :- early 15c., from en- (1) "make, put in" + act. Related: Enacted; enacting.
- verb act out; accomplish
- verb authorize, legislate
- While this scene was enacting, a similar one was taking place on board the Dove.
- Extract from : « A Voyage round the World » by W.H.G. Kingston
- I saw that he was now enacting a different rôle—that of marker for the marksmen.
- Extract from : « The Wild Huntress » by Mayne Reid
- Did the poor mocked-at heart divine what might be then enacting?
- Extract from : « The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Complete » by George Meredith
- The enacting stile of the laws of the United States shall be.
- Extract from : « The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught » by Charles C. Nott
- She was Maria, who had been housemaid there during the enacting of that tragedy.
- Extract from : « Johnny Ludlow, Fourth Series » by Mrs. Henry Wood
- While this scene was enacting, the English Justiciars were in session in the Castle.
- Extract from : « King Robert the Bruce » by A. F. Murison
- But go back, my dear Talboys, to the first enacting of the Play.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66, No 409, November 1849 » by Various
- The difficulty is really not in enacting laws for it, but to keep them in vigor.
- Extract from : « Catholic World, Vol. XIII, April to September, 1871 » by Various
- She is enacting this melodrama on your breast: she may enact the next on another man's.
- Extract from : « Red as a Rose is She » by Rhoda Broughton
- All this time a different scene was enacting at the other end of the table.
- Extract from : « Lothair » by Benjamin Disraeli
Synonyms for enacting
- accomplish
- achieve
- appear as
- appoint
- bring about
- carry through
- command
- constitute
- decree
- depict
- determine
- dictate
- discourse
- do
- effect
- effectuate
- establish
- execute
- fix
- formulate
- get the floor
- go on
- institute
- jam through
- make
- make into law
- make laws
- ordain
- order
- pass
- perform
- personate
- play
- play the part of
- playact
- portray
- proclaim
- put in force
- put through
- railroad
- railroad through
- ratify
- represent
- sanction
- set
- steamroll
- transact
- vote favorably
- vote in
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