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Perform

verb

(past & past part. performed; pres. part. performing)

Carry out or perform an action. Synonyms: do, execute. "The skater executed a triple pirouette" , "She did a little dance"

Perform a function.

Give a performance (of something). "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"

Get (something) done. Synonym: do.

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... motor sledges and man-hauling parties on ski were to perform the Polar journey by a system of relays or supporting parties. Scott's old comrade, Dr. E.A. Wilson of Cheltenham, was selected as chief of the scientific staff and to act as artist to the expedition. Three ...

— South with Scott • Edward R. G. R. Evans

... means I could command to the work of spreading the principles and building up the organization of the party of constitutional freedom then inaugurated. Sometimes, indeed, all I could do seemed insignificant, while the labors I had to perform, and the demand upon my very limited resources by necessary contributions, taxed severely ...

— The Abolitionists - Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights • John F. Hume

... concerning the health and whereabouts of soldiers which reached him every week were far in excess of the number of communications which arrived at the Consulate in a year of peaceful times. Consul Hay was in good favour with the Boer Government notwithstanding his earnest efforts to perform his duties with regard to the British prisoners and interests, and of the many consuls who have represented the United States in South Africa none performed his duties more intelligently or with more credit ...

— With the Boer Forces • Howard C. Hillegas

... founded. But the lifeless king was now deserted by all who had participated in his munificence and bounty. Every one of his brethren and relations had left him; nor was there even a servant to be found to perform the last offices to his departed lord. The care of the obsequies was finally undertaken by Herluin, a knight of that district, who, moved by the love of God and the honor of his nation, provided at his own expence, embalmers, and bearers, and a hearse, ...

— Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2) • Dawson Turner

... St. Germanus, distinguished for his numerous virtues, came to preach in Britain: by his ministry many were saved; but many likewise died unconverted. Of the various miracles which God enabled him to perform, I shall here mention only a few: I shall first advert to that concerning an iniquitous and tyrannical king, named Benlli.* The holy man, informed of his wicked conduct, hastened to visit him, for the purpose of remonstrating ...

— History Of The Britons (Historia Brittonum) • Nennius

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