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Performing

noun

The performance of a part or role in a drama. Synonyms: acting, playacting, playing.

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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... "When him I after in the field espied, Performing wondrous feats of chivalry, I was surprised by Love, ere I descried That freedom in my Love, so rash a guide, I lay this unction to my phantasy, That no unseemly place my heart possest, Fixed on the worthiest in the ...

— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto

... shore, when he was on the point of being drowned. I had often rescued him from the clutches of those whom his insufferable arrogance had provoked to a resentment he was not able to sustain; and many times saved his reputation and posteriors, by performing his exercises at school; so that it is not to be wondered at, if he had a particular regard for me and my interests. The attachment of Strap flowed from a voluntary, disinterested inclination, which had manifested itself on many occasions in my behalf, he having once rendered me ...

— The Adventures of Roderick Random • Tobias Smollett

... repeated Doctor Heidegger, "may I reckon on your aid in performing an exceedingly ...

— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various

... ccapac hongo[102], placed the suntur paucar in his hand, gave him the other insignia of Inca, and the priests raised him on their shoulders. When these ceremonies were completed, Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui ordered that his son Tupac Inca should remain shut up in the House of the Sun, performing the fasts which it is the custom to go through before receiving the order of chivalry; which ceremony consisted in opening the ears. The Inca ordered that what had been done should not be made public until he gave the ...

— History of the Incas • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

... opposite, and presently he came in with a blank marriage certificate. We called for pen and ink and he sat down and filled out the blank form putting in my name and Margaret Bradley's, signing it with some odd name I have forgotten as that of the clergyman performing the ceremony. He then signed his own name as a witness to the marriage, and the young woman who was with us also witnessed it with her signature. We had a great deal of fun over it, then more wine, and then it was time for us to hurry ...

— Seven Wives and Seven Prisons • L.A. Abbott

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