mimed
past simple and past participle ofmime
mime
verb[IorT]
uk/maɪm/us/maɪm/toactortellastoryin mime:
Thewholeof thebanquetsceneis mimed.
topretendtosing,play, or say something without making anysound:
Most of thebandsthatappearon the show just mimetoarecordingoftheirsongs.
He was miming something at meacrosstheroom.
Cinema & theatre: acting, rehearsing & performing
- act out
- amateur theater
- appear
- blocking
- camp
- chew
- chew the sceneryidiom
- corpse
- dumb show
- greasepaint
- interpret
- interpreter
- method acting
- overact
- stage
- tread
- variety
- walk throughsomething
- walkthrough
- wrap party
Examplesofmimed
mimed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Paradoxically, however, the silentlymimedsequences evoke an even greater visual horror.
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Early nineteenth-century potboilingmimedhouseholder status through, quite literally, cooking.
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The final notes of the music aremimedby the performer.
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For me, the import of the airplane/ fly distinction is that, while a "natural" gesture is unitary, extending the range of discourse requires distinctions that cannot bemimeddirectly.
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They literally justmimedeverything, they went through the entire actions, but they were allowed to get through to the very end that time, those actors.
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The dance was too exact an inscription of the music: repetition of any musical event could do no more than inspire repetition of its attendantmimedgesture.
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By the time all four fugue entries have been heard, the four dancers are animated, and the dance continues in this exact,mimedreduplication of the fugue's unfolding.
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Shemimedthe words ' icing sugar ' to her neighbour and, rather than saying the words out loud, she mimed the numbers as she pointed to and counted the cakes.
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The children always contributed to school shows, most often inmimedsketches.
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He composed the score and also played the violin and guitar pieces which weremimedby the actor and actress playing the young lovers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Once it has passed to the sixth, he/she is asked what was beingmimed, drawn or played.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The music on the recording of the video was played fast and the singing wasmimedfast.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The mime and his girlfriend both walk in on each other having affairs (mimed, of course), again symbolizing the emptiness of theirmimedrelationships.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the series, the cast danced to andmimedhit recordings (a mix of contemporary and older hits).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The song featured a brass section thatmimedplaying on stage, in order to let the orchestra make the brass effort.
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