do¹ /doo or də/

1. To accomplish, complete
2. To finish
3. To exhaust
4. To work at
5. To perform work upon
6. To put in some condition, eg to clean, to tidy
7. To render
8. To confer
9. To bestow
10. To provide
11. To perform
12. (of a vehicle) to (have the power to) travel at a (maximum) speed of
13. To beat up, thrash, assault (informal)
14. To prepare, set in order, arrange
15. To cook
16. To cheat, or overreach (informal)
17. To prosecute (informal)
18. To raid, rob (slang)
19. To treat
20. To make the round of, see the sights of (informal)
21. To spend (a period of time) in prison
22. To take or use (a drug) (slang)
23. To mimic, impersonate
24. To have sexual intercourse with (slang)
25. To put, place (obsolete)
26. To cause (obsolete)

1. To act, be active
2. To behave
3. To fare
4. To thrive
5. To suffice
6. To be just good enough
7. To serve (with for)
8. To arrange, devise or effect in respect of something or someone (with with)

—Do serves as a substitute for a verb that has just been used. It is used as an auxiliary verb (where there is no other auxiliary) with an infinitive in negative, interrogative, emphatic, and rhetorically inverted sentences, in some dialects merely periphrastically, and in verse sometimes to gain a syllable or postpone the accent; but these uses are limited with the verbs have and do

1. Activity (obsolete)
2. A party, feast or celebration
3. A hairdo (informal)
4. A swindle, hoax (slang)
5. What one has to do (obsolete)
6. Fuss (archaic)

doˈable adjective (informal)

Able to be done

doˈer noun

1. A person who does, or habitually does, anything
2. An agent
3. A busy, active or energetic person
4. A person who prefers taking action, or practical steps, to contemplation and discussion
5. A healthy farm animal (NZ)
6. A horse in respect of its appetite, as in a good doer (horse-racing)

doˈing adjective

Active (as in up and doing)

1. A scolding
2. Thrashing
3. Severe treatment
4. The agency or handiwork of someone seen as instrumental in something
5. (in pl) activities, behaviour
6. (in pl) working parts or pieces of equipment
7. (in pl) fancy dishes or adjuncts
8. (in pl) what's-its-name

done transitive verb and intransitive verb (Spenser)

Infinitive of do

1. Pap of do
2. Utterly exhausted (now usu done in)
3. Finished, completed
4. Cooked to a degree suitable for eating
5. (of behaviour, etc) socially acceptable

(used in clinching a bargain, etc) agreed

doneˈness noun (cookery)

The state of being, or degree to which something is, cooked

doˈ-all noun

A factotum

doˈ-goodˈer noun

A slighting name for someone who tries to benefit others by social reforms, etc, implying that his or her efforts are unwelcome, self-righteous or ineffectual

doˈ-goodˈery noun (derogatory).

doˈ-goodˈing noun and adjective

doˈ-goodˈism noun (derogatory).

do-it-yourselfˈ adjective

Designed to be built or constructed, etc by an amateur rather than by someone specially trained (also noun)

do-it-yourselfˈer noun

doˈ-naught, doˈ-nought or doˈ-nothˈing noun

1. A lazy or idle person
2. A fainéant (see donnot)

doˈ-nothˈingism noun

doˈ-nothˈingness noun

all done

Completely finished, used up

be done

1. To be at an end
2. To have done or finished (Scot)

be or have done with

To finish with, end contact or dealings with

do away with

To abolish, destroy

do brown see under brown

do by

To act towards

do down

1. To belittle
2. To put down, subdue (obsolete)
3. To cheat, get the better of (informal)

do for

1. To suit
2. To provide for
3. To ruin
4. To kill (informal)
5. To do domestic work for (informal)

do in (informal)

1. To deceive, to get the better of
2. To exhaust
3. To ruin
4. To murder

do or die

To make a final desperate attempt to do or achieve something, no matter what the cost or consequences (doˈ-or-dieˈ adjective)

do out (informal)

To clean (a room, etc) thoroughly

do out of (informal)

To deprive of by cheating

do over

1. To do again, repeat (N American)
2. To cover over, eg with paint
3. To rob (slang)
4. To beat up (slang)

do's and don'ts

Advice or rules for action, esp in particular circumstances

do someone proud (informal)

1. To make someone feel flattered
2. To treat lavishly

do something, etc for

To improve, enhance

do to death

1. To murder
2. To repeat too often

do up

1. To fasten up
2. To put up, make tidy, arrange, tie up
3. To redecorate
4. To apply cosmetics to
5. To dress, array oneself becomingly
6. To fatigue utterly

do well

1. To be justified
2. To be wise or sensible to take a particular step
3. To prosper

do with

1. To make use of
2. To benefit from
3. To meddle with
4. To get on with

do without

Not to be dependent on, to dispense with

have done

1. To desist
2. To stop it
3. To have no more dealings

have to do with

To have any sort of connection with

have you done? (informal)

Are you finished?

how do you do?

A conventional phrase used as a greeting

I, etc can't be doing with

I, etc can't abide, have no patience with

make do see under make¹

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