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Definition of performing : of Perform

Synonyms:

playacting

committing, venturing, aiming, contracting, engaging, assaying, volunteering, attempting, undertaking, exploiting, maneuvering, approaching

deporting, proceeding

temporary, exercising, doing, appearing, acting, endeavoring, comporting, working, practicing, operating, perpetrating, moving, executing, transacting, deputy, pro tem, behaving, surrogate, laboring, reacting, officiating, functioning, alternate, conducting

playing, jamming, serenading, singing, soloing, harmonizing

toiling

initiating, campaigning, scheming, pursuing

Usage examples:

• And do you think your carrying a revolver will prevent him and his friends performing that operation if you provoked them? - "Sally Dows and Other Stories", Bret Harte.
• He was unaccustomed to the part he was performing:- and if she failed him? - "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith.
• Although, in his pride at thus performing the duties of a real soldier, the boy allowed no word of complaint to escape him, he felt what the others expressed openly- that this guard duty, now that the Spaniards and savages had departed, and in the midst of a storm so terrible that it did not seem possible for mortals to face it, was an unnecessary hardship. - "The Flamingo Feather", Kirk Munroe.