To do something that you have planned or had previously only thought of doing
To express your thoughts or feelings through your words or behaviour
To show the events that happened in a situation by doing them again or by doing the same things as the people involved
He was acting out his feelings of inferiority by being overly aggressive.
He was gone so fast Tesla had no choice but to act out at the same time.
If something made Ben act out of character and he got drunk and then for some reason he got behind the wheel of that car.
It's enough to make anyone act out of character, so please - don't feel embarrassed by last night!
Just imagining these things is fine, as long as you don’t try to act them out.
Never empty, we can never act ex nihilo, never act out of whim, never act as God.
The scenarios that the trainees act out are videotaped.
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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