doˈing adjective

Active (as in up and doing)

noun (informal)

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

adjective

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

interjection

(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

nothing doing

No

that's done it (informal)

1. It is completed
2. An interjection expressing dismay that something is spoiled or ruined

to do with

Concerning

what are you, etc doing with (something)?

Why have you, etc got (something)?

what's to do?

What is the matter?