do in
verb
did in; done in; doing in; does in
transitive verb
1
a
: to bring about the defeat or destruction of
a businessman done in by greed
also : kill
b
: exhaust, wear out
2
: cheat
Synonyms
- annihilate
- cream
- decimate
- demolish
- desolate
- destroy
- devastate
- extinguish
- nuke
- pull down
- pulverize
- raze
- rub out
- ruin
- shatter
- smash
- tear down
- total
- vaporize
- waste
- wrack
- wreck
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Example Sentences
a business venture that was done in by poor planning the early frost did in all of our tender plants
Word History
First Known Use
1905, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
doing in
verb
1
as in destroying
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of a business venture that was done in by poor planning Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- destroying
- ruining
- shattering
- demolishing
- devastating
- wrecking
- pulling down
- tearing down
- smashing
- overcoming
- rubbing out
- damaging
- wasting
- totaling
- eroding
- extinguishing
- vaporizing
- pulverizing
- blowing up
- desolating
- annihilating
- decimating
- marring
- washing out
- wracking
- razing
- creaming
- ravaging
- taking down
- crippling
- nuking
- wiping out
- killing
- winning (against)
- triumphing (over)
- breaking
- blotting out
- prevailing (over)
- crushing
- removing
- dismantling
- cutting down
- defeating
- taking out
- blasting
- totalling
- killing off
- wearing (away)
- routing
- licking
- trimming
- injuring
- surmounting
- subduing
- sweeping (away)
- mastering
- conquering
- impairing
- deteriorating
- stamping (out)
- spoiling
- rooting (out)
- overbearing
- dissolving
- disintegrating
- whipping
- snuffing (out)
- thrashing
- eradicating
- mutilating
- drubbing
- clobbering
- disfiguring
- trouncing
- harming
- besting
- dynamiting
- defacing
- beating
- mangling
- undoing
- scouring
- walloping
- vitiating
- overmatching
- mowing (down)
- gutting
- executing
- slaughtering
- sacking
- disassembling
- looting
- assassinating
- plundering
- exterminating
- obliterating
- effacing
- vandalizing
- scotching
- liquidating
- unmaking
- trampling
- extirpating
- murdering
- expunging
- slaying
- havocking
- skunking
- dispatching
- pillaging
- despoiling
- zapping
- felling
- trashing
- butchering
- unbuilding
- dilapidating
- massacring
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- setting up
- building
- constructing
- raising
- erecting
- creating
- bringing about
- repairing
- putting up
- rearing
- fixing
- producing
- forming
- making
- manufacturing
- shaping
- inventing
- establishing
- mending
- assembling
- organizing
- patching
- forging
- framing
- constituting
- molding
- fabricating
- reconditioning
- protecting
- founding
- revamping
- preserving
- instituting
- fashioning
- saving
- doctoring
- conserving
- restoring
- rebuilding
- remodeling
- reconstructing
- fathering
- renovating
2
as in killing
to deprive of life the early frost did in all of our tender plants Synonyms & Similar Words
- killing
- destroying
- carrying off
- doing for
- slaying
- doing away with
- cutting down
- making away with
- taking out
- taking
- putting away
- claiming
- dispatching
- killing off
- blotting out
- rubbing out
- felling
- knocking off
- bumping off
- murdering
- slaughtering
- croaking
- putting down
- finishing
- assassinating
- wasting
- neutralizing
- scragging
- executing
- snuffing
- offing
- butchering
- mowing
- icing
- getting
- whacking
- decimating
- annihilating
- massacring
- smiting
- terminating
- martyring
- euthanizing
- euthanatizing
- suiciding
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- raising
- reviving
- restoring
- animating
- resurrecting
- nurturing
- resuscitating
3
as in assassinating
to put to death deliberately somebody did the old man in late last night Synonyms & Similar Words
- assassinating
- murdering
- taking out
- putting away
- rubbing out
- executing
- knocking off
- bumping off
- slaying
- doing away with
- killing
- getting
- blowing away
- cutting down
- neutralizing
- dispatching
- carrying off
- shooting down
- blotting out
- terminating
- shooting
- snuffing
- liquidating
- offing
- whacking
- icing
- destroying
- slaughtering
- wiping out
- croaking
- claiming
- mowing (down)
- eliminating
- zapping
- felling
- smiting
- eradicating
- butchering
- massacring
- exterminating
- annihilating
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- raising
- reviving
- restoring
- animating
- resurrecting
- resuscitating
4
as in wearing
to use up all the physical energy of the long day of hard work really did me in Synonyms & Similar Words
- wearing
- killing
- exhausting
- wearing out
- tiring
- doing up
- burning out
- draining
- knocking out
- washing out
- wearing to a frazzle
- tuckering (out)
- wasting
- wearying
- harassing
- breaking
- outwearing
- busting
- fatiguing
- fagging
- weakening
- frazzling
- debilitating
- sapping
- enervating
- enfeebling
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- activating
- strengthening
- resting
- energizing
- invigorating
- rejuvenating
- relaxing
- vitalizing
- unwinding
5
as in cheating
to rob by the use of trickery or threats too savvy an investor to be done in by preposterous claims of astronomical returns Synonyms & Similar Words
- cheating
- stinging
- squeezing
- doing
- plucking
- shaking down
- ripping off
- hustling
- sticking
- beating
- taking for a ride
- selling a bill of goods to
- taking to the cleaners
- screwing
- bleeding
- thimblerigging
- deceiving
- chousing
- shorting
- euchring
- rooking
- defrauding
- reaming
- mulcting
- victimizing
- shortchanging
- flimflamming
- conning
- swindling
- exploiting
- skinning
- tricking
- cozening
- fleecing
- bilking
- fiddling
- chiseling
- suckering
- stiffing
- gaffing
- diddling
- hosing
- betraying
- nobbling
- fooling
- chiselling
- wrenching
- skunking
- clipping
- extorting
- roping (in)
- milking
- gouging
- overcharging
- soaking
- wringing
- nicking
- wresting
- duping
- gulling
- bitching
- bamboozling
- double-crossing
- fast-talking