PV - Act sth out

Act sth out

*To show the events that happened in a situation by doing them again or by doing the same things as the people involved: The scenarios that the trainees act out are videotaped.

*When you act out your feelings or ideas, you express them in your behaviour, especially as a means of relieving nervous tensions or emotion: Children act out their frustration in temper tantrums.

*To express your thoughts or feelings through your words or behaviour: He was acting out his feelings of inferiority by being overly aggressive.

*To do something that you have planned or had previously only thought of doing: Just imagining these things is fine, as long as you don’t try to act them out.

*If you act out an event which has happened, you copy the actions which took place and make them into a play: The teacher gets the students to act out some historic event.

*To perform in real life a role that one has imagined in a fantasy: I acted out an old fantasy onstage.

*To convert one’s bad feelings into action rather than words: Don’t act your aggressions out on me! # She acted out her aggression.

*To demonstrate or communicate something through gestures or action rather than words: Act your request out, if you can’t say it.

*(American) If someone is acting out, they are behaving aggressively because they are upset or unhappy: One way of helping kids is to provide a significant male role model to boys who are showing signs of acting out.

*If a group of people act out an event, they show how it happened by pretending to be the people who were involved in it: The children were acting out the story of the birth of Jesus.

*To express your feelings about something through your behaviour or actions, especially when you have been feeling angry or nervous: These teenagers are likely to act out their distress by running away.

*To perform a ceremony or show how something happened, as if performing a play: The ritual of the party conference is acted out in the same way every year. # The children started to act out the whole incident.

*To act a part in a real situation: She acted out the role of the wronged lover.

*To perform the actions and say the words or situation or story: The children acted out their favourite poem.

*To express your thoughts, emotions or ideas in your actions: Children’s negative feelings often get acted out in bad behaviour.

act verb noun

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