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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