act out
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌækt ˈaʊ̯t/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
act out (third-person singular simple present acts out, present participle acting out, simple past and past participle acted out)
- (transitive) To perform something specific.
- 1987, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students:
- What was acted out in the American and French Revolutions had been thought out beforehand in the writings of Locke and Rousseau, the scenarists for the drama of modern politics.
- (transitive, intransitive) To express internal feelings or thoughts.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see act, out.
- She's a street performer, so she acts out on Ninth Street.
Translations
to perform a scene from a play, a charade or an exercise
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to express one's feelings through disruptive actions
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