ACTED Synonyms: 108 Similar and Opposite Words

acted

verb

past tense of act

as in played

to present a portrayal or performance of a local student acted the part of Tiny Tim in our theater company's production of A Christmas Carol

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as in worked

to produce a desired effect the painkiller acted surprisingly quickly

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as in seemed

to give the impression of being always acting helpless, just to get attention

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as in served

to have a certain purpose the tail feathers of woodpeckers act as props while the birds excavate tree trunks for insects

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as in pretended

to present a false appearance of if you act confident long enough, you'll begin to actually feel it

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as in mocked

to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior someone who is willing to act the helpless little thing when she wants attention

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Recent Examples of acted India's regional peers have acted — some going beyond expectations — to get ahead of the inflation curve. —

Sri Jegarajah,priyanka Salve, CNBC, 3 June 2026 McCarthy hasn't acted much since The Wire ended, as he's been focused on his filmmaking. —

Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026 Watson has played in just 19 of those 68 games, as his salary and the vacuum of picks acted as anchors on Cleveland’s roster. —

Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 2 June 2026 Historically, Congress has acted to shore up Social Security before the trust funds were exhausted, as was done in 1983. —

Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026 His attorney, Mike Howard, said after the indictment that the defense believes prosecutors will be unable to eliminate reasonable doubt about whether Anthony acted to protect himself during the encounter. —

Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 2 June 2026 Without radical trust, neither judgment nor visibility gets acted on at the speed the environment demands. —

Adrienne Down Coulson, Fortune, 2 June 2026 Law enforcement acted on a tip received last week about a cockfight scheduled for Saturday in the 500 block of Franklin Street in Chester, the Pennsylvania SPCA said in a news release Monday. —

Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 1 June 2026 Republicans have now acted to redraw congressional maps in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Tennessee, with varying degrees of success, while a battle in Utah could add a single additional Democratic seat there. —

Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026

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Verb

In addition, the Urban Summit played a leading role in the special election to recall former Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr.

— Freddrell Green, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2026
While the men who landed on the beaches of Normandy are remembered each year, Museum officials said the women on the home front played an essential role in making Allied victory possible.

— Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2026