acting on

Meaning

"Acting on" means taking action because of information, advice, orders, or a feeling. It can also mean having an influence on something, as when a drug is acting on the brain.

Synonyms

awing railroading brainwashing nudging sanctifying muscling hearkening hectoring sandbagging

Antonyms

asking steering guiding piloting mistaking escorting
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Examples

What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field. Albert Einstein

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. Siegfried Sassoon

The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real. Edward Snowden

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it. Melody Beattie

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. Albert Einstein

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not. Evelyn Underhill

Words in the phrase

acting on

Close letter words and terms

acting like acting macho acting monarchy acting on the possibility acting on their own initiative acting out