GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pretend to do something by acting as if one was really doing it

Example:

She isn't really working--she's just going through the motions

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "go through the motions" is one way to...):

make; make believe; pretend (represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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