ACT UPON
Dictionary entry overview: What does act upon mean?
• ACT UPON (verb)
The verb ACT UPON has 1 sense:
1. have and exert influence or effect
Familiarity information: ACT UPON used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ACT UPON (verb)
Meaning:
Have and exert influence or effect
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
act upon; influence; work
Context examples:
The artist's work influenced the young painter / She worked on her friends to support the political candidate
Hypernyms (to "act upon" is one way to...):
affect; bear on; bear upon; impact; touch; touch on (have an effect upon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "act upon"):
prejudice; prepossess (influence (somebody's) opinion in advance)
get at (influence by corruption)
carry; persuade; sway (win approval or support for)
blackjack; blackmail; pressure (exert pressure on someone through threats)
swing; swing over (influence decisively)
color; colour (modify or bias)
manipulate; pull strings; pull wires (influence or control shrewdly or deviously)
militate (have force or influence; bring about an effect or change)
form; imprint (establish or impress firmly in the mind)
dominate (be in control)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
