Definitions for perform

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perform per·form

Spelling: [per-fawrm]

IPA: /pərˈfɔrm/

Perform is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in perform (efmoprr).

Definitions for perform

verb (used with object)

1. to carry out; execute; do:
2. to go through or execute in the proper, customary, or established manner:
3. to carry into effect; fulfill:
4. to act (a play, part, etc.), as on the stage, in movies, or on television.
5. to render (music), as by playing or singing.
6. to accomplish (any action involving skill or ability), as before an audience:
7. to complete.

verb (used without object)

1. to fulfill a command, promise, or undertaking.
2. to execute or do something.
3. to act in a play:
4. to perform music.
5. to go through any performance.
6. (of loans, investments, etc.) to yield a profit; earn income.

Origin of perform

1250-1300; Middle English parformen Anglo-French parformer, alteration (by association with forme form) of Middle French, Old French parfou

Examples for perform

If we would promise we must put ourselves in a position to perform our promise.

But thus it always is with persons who are destined to perform great things.

Those Westerners perform quite in that manner, I assure you.

His first language was Russian, then he learned Swedish, but chooses to perform in monosyllabic broken English.

He has only turned down a few weddings, claiming to perform around 80 percent of the prison marriages in the Los Angeles area.

She had her duty to perform, and she expected to be taken care of till it was done.

I felt very free there to sort of, you know, perform…not just doing guys and dolls and stuff.

Daniels, 28, was allegedly the first to force “Jane Doe” to perform sexual acts on johns.

It does not often fall to the lot of a boy to perform a deed so heroic.

It was through this work that Bensoussan discovered there was a demand for ministers to perform weddings at jails and prisons.