Antonyms for performs
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : per-fawrm |
| Phonetic Transcription : pərˈfɔrm |
Definition of performs
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
- She has a boy who works with her and performs the rougher tasks.
- Extract from : « Concerning Cats » by Helen M. Winslow
- When she performs in that way with her hands, you may swear she is didactic.'
- Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
- You may be sure of that; but, as is always the case, it is gold which performs that miracle.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- Arrange to pay your boy so much an hour for the duties he performs.
- Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
- And it is with all the selfishness of the artist that it performs its usual operations.
- Extract from : « The World in Chains » by John Mavrogordato
- The band that performs at a Munich beer-garden is not the sort of band that can be ignored.
- Extract from : « Diary of a Pilgrimage » by Jerome K. Jerome
- Like Moore too, he both composes and performs his own songs.
- Extract from : « The English Spy » by Bernard Blackmantle
- This task De Foe performs with unequalled spirit and vivacity.
- Extract from : « Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) » by Leslie Stephen
- He is noiseless over his work, which he performs efficiently.
- Extract from : « The Civilization Of China » by Herbert A. Giles
- It has continuity and it performs functions and it is an historic entity.
- Extract from : « The Psychology of Nations » by G.E. Partridge
Synonyms for performs
- 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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