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EMOTE

emote - v 
give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role 

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Synonyms

act, dramatize, exaggerate, overact, overdramatize, overplay

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Examples

Siskind encourages the children to emote to the music as they dance.

Guests may now congratulate the married couple. Emote freely. Save celebratory gems for use outside.

They want him to emote and perform the proper theatrical gestures so they can see their emotions enacted on the public stage.

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Etymology

"portray or express emotion," especially theatrically, 1909, American English, back-formation from emotion. Related: Emoted; emoting.

emotion (n.)
1570s, "a (social) moving, stirring, agitation," from French émotion (16c.), from Old French emouvoir "stir up" (12c.), from Latin emovere "move out, remove, agitate," from assimilated form of ex "out" (see ex-) + movere "to move" (from PIE root *meue- "to push away"). Sense of "strong feeling" is first recorded 1650s; extended to any feeling by 1808.

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