Synonyms for perform
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Verb
1. Execute
do, execute, fulfill US, fulfil UK, accomplish, act, enact, make, work, play, work out, achieve, complete, represent, pull informal, commit, bring about, practice US, practise UK, satisfy, perpetrate, realize, realise UK, transact, finish
Other
get on, support, keep, officiate, materialize UK US, materialise UK, prosecute
Definitions
- v. 1
To do (something); to execute.
The scientists performed several experiments.
Related words
Forms
- Past participle
- performed
e.g. performed → executed, fulfilled, accomplished, acted…
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Achieve--to do something worthy of a chief--signifies always to perform some great and generally some worthy exploit. Perform and accomplish both imply working toward the end; but perform always allows a possibility of not attaining, while accomplish carries the thought of full completion.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- act Say what you will, I will act on my own judgement.
- accomplish Truly, I still think this will accomplish nothing.
- execute It's not OK to execute someone without due process.
- enact The Federal Parliament ultimately didn't enact this law.
- officiate Oleg started to officiate the wedding.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| perform | steady | |
| act | falling | |
| accomplish | steady | |
| execute | rising | |
| enact | falling | |
| officiate | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 2 letters
- do1
- 3 letters
- act1
- 4 letters
- make1, work1, keep1, play1, pull1
- 5 letters
- enact2
- 6 letters
- finish2, commit2, fulfil2
- 7 letters
- support2, realize3, achieve2, realise3, execute3, satisfy3, fulfill2
- 8 letters
- complete2, practice2, practise2, transact2
- 9 letters
- represent3, prosecute3, officiate4
- 10 letters
- accomplish3, perpetrate3
- 11 letters
- materialize5, materialise
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (enact2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- exécuter
- Italiano
- eseguire
- Español
- ejecutar
- Deutsch
- exekutieren
- Català
- executar