pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
<verb.body> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 1
<verb.body> freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 1
| act |
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| act as |
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| play |
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sample sentences
"He acted the idiot""She plays deaf when the news are bad"
verb frames
Somebody ----s somebodyverb frames
Somebody ----s somebodyverb frames
Somebody ----s somebody
lexical pointers
derivationally related form