Antonyms for perform
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : per-fawrm |
| Phonetic Transcription : pərˈfɔrm |
Definition of perform
Origin :- c.1300, "carry into effect, fulfill, discharge," via Anglo-French performer, altered (by influence of Old French forme "form") from Old French parfornir "to do, carry out, finish, accomplish," from par- "completely" (see per-) + fornir "to provide" (see furnish).
- Theatrical/musical sense is from c.1600. The verb was used with wider senses in Middle English than now, including "to make, construct; produce, bring about;" also "come true" (of dreams), and to performen muche time was "to live long." Related: Performed; performing.
- verb carry out, accomplish
- verb act, depict as entertainment
- It does not often fall to the lot of a boy to perform a deed so heroic.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- Those Westerners perform quite in that manner, I assure you.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- She had her duty to perform, and she expected to be taken care of till it was done.
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- If we would promise we must put ourselves in a position to perform our promise.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- But thus it always is with persons who are destined to perform great things.
- Extract from : « The Three Golden Apples » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The task I had set myself to perform seemed only at its commencement yet.
- Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
- I hope that I shall never be called upon to perform that promise.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- His squadron was too small for the service which it had to perform.
- Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey
- How can I perform what I can sooner choose to die than to perform—!
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Their duty is before them: in the fear of God, and not of man let them perform it.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
Synonyms for perform
- achieve
- act
- act out
- appear as
- be engaged in
- be on
- behave
- bring about
- bring down the house
- bring off
- carry through
- carry to completion
- complete
- comply
- deliver the goods
- discharge
- discourse
- display
- dispose of
- do
- do a number
- do a turn
- do justice to
- do to a turn
- dramatize
- effect
- emote
- enact
- end
- enforce
- execute
- exhibit
- finish
- fulfill
- function
- give
- go on
- go that route
- ham
- ham it up
- impersonate
- implement
- meet
- move
- observe
- offer
- operate
- percolate
- perk
- personate
- play
- playact
- present
- produce
- pull off
- put on
- put through
- react
- realize
- render
- represent
- run with the ball
- satisfy
- show
- stage
- take
- take care of business
- tick
- transact
- tread the boards
- wind up
- work
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