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acting out

verb , present participle of act out

Synonyms and Antonyms of acting out

to behave badly

because his parents spent so much time with his chronically ill sister, the boy resorted to acting out in order to get attention

Synonyms of acting out

acting up, carrying on, misbehaving

Words Related to acting out

disobeying, rebelling

clowning (around), cutting up, fooling around, horsing around, kidding (around)

Phrases Synonymous with acting out

raising Cain (or raising hell), running riot

Near Antonyms of acting out

acquitting, acting, bearing, comporting, conducting, demeaning, deporting, quitting

complying, conforming

checking, collecting, composing, constraining, containing, controlling, curbing, handling, inhibiting, moving, quieting, repressing, restraining

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