act up
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way
The children acted up when they were not bored
Types & categories
- misconduct hypernym
Sense 2 verb
make itself felt as a recurring pain
My arthritis is acting up again
Types & categories
- hurt hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | misconduct |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | hurt |