act upon

1. 1.

   have and exert influence or effect

   “The artist's work influenced the young painter”

   “She worked on her friends to support the political candidate”

   Synonymsinfluencework

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Questions about act upon

What does act upon mean?

act upon means "have and exert influence or effect".

What is another word for act upon?

Close synonyms include influence, work. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is act upon a common word?

act upon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.