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perform verb [ pəˈfɔːm ]

• carry out, accomplish, or fulfil (an action, task, or function).
• "I have my duties to perform"
Similar: carry out, do, execute, discharge, bring about, bring off, accomplish, achieve, fulfil, complete, conduct, effect, dispatch, work, implement, pull off, acquit oneself of, effectuate,
Opposite: neglect, omit,
• present (a form of entertainment) to an audience.
• "the play has already been performed in Britain"
Similar: stage, put on, present, mount, enact, act, represent, do, produce,
Origin: Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French parfourmer, alteration (by association with forme ‘form’) of Old French parfournir, from par ‘through, to completion’ + fournir ‘furnish, provide’.


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