Definition of acted

"acted" in the verb sense

1. act, move

perform an action, or work out or perform (an action

"think before you act"

"We must move quickly"

"The governor should act on the new energy bill"

"The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"

2. act, behave, do

behave in a certain manner show a certain behavior conduct or comport oneself

"You should act like an adult"

"Don't behave like a fool"

"What makes her do this way?"

"The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people"

3. act, play, represent

play a role or part

"Gielgud played Hamlet"

"She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"

"She played the servant to her husband's master"

4. act

discharge one's duties

"She acts as the chair"

"In what capacity are you acting?"

5. act, play, act as

pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind

"He acted the idiot"

"She plays deaf when the news are bad"

6. act

be suitable for theatrical performance

"This scene acts well"

7. work, act

have an effect or outcome often the one desired or expected

"The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"

"How does your idea work in practice?"

"This method doesn't work"

"The breaks of my new car act quickly"

"The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water"

8. act

be engaged in an activity, often for no particular purpose other than pleasure

9. dissemble, pretend, act

behave unnaturally or affectedly

"She's just acting"

10. act, play, roleplay, playact

perform on a stage or theater

"She acts in this play"

"He acted in `Julius Caesar'"

"I played in `A Christmas Carol'"

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Quotations for acted

Sins are not known till they be acted. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy! [ Cowley ]

What is justice but another form of the reality we love - a truth acted out? [ Carlyle ]

There was a time when the world acted upon books; now books act upon the world. [ Joubert ]

Unhappy scenes which I myself witnessed, and in which I acted a principal part. [ Virgil ]

Comedies acted on life's stage, behind the scenes, are much more spirited than those acted in sight of the audience. [ De Finod ]

On the Greek stage, a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day. [ Coleridge ]

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she ends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists. [ William Penn ]

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

acted in Scrabble®

The word acted is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters acted:

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CADET
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acted in Words With Friends™

The word acted is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters acted:

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Word Growth involving acted

Shorter words in acted

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