noun
- A party, celebration, social function.
- A hairdo.
- Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
- A deed; an act.
- Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
- A cheat; a swindler.
- An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
Synonyms: get-together, to-do
verb
- (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
- To perform; to execute.
- To cause, make (someone) (do something).
- To suffice.
- To be reasonable or acceptable.
- (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
- To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
- To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- To cook.
- To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- To treat in a certain way.
- To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
- To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- To impersonate or depict.
- (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- To kill.
- To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- To punish for a misdemeanor.
- To have sex with. (See also do it)
- To cheat or swindle.
- To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- To finish.
- To work as a domestic servant (with for).
- (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
- To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- (ditransitive) To make or provide.
- To injure (one's own body part).
- To take drugs.
- (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
Synonyms: accomplish, carry out, functionate, attend, serve, wait on, defraud, diddle, mug off, rip off, scam, do in, murder, off, rub out, furnish, give, supply, go to bed with, sleep with, imitate, personate, take off, serve
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