What did you do mean?
transitive verb: to bring to pass : carry outit is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence and if I can learn what it is I will do it Abraham Lincoln: put used chiefly in
transitive verb: to bring to pass : carry outit is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence and if I can learn what it is I will do it
Abraham Lincoln: put used chiefly in do to deathhad been hounded down and done to death as heretics
Stringfellow Barr: to bring to an end : finish used in the past participle: to put forth : exertdid her best to win the racea: to wear out especially by physical exertion : exhaustat the end of the race they were pretty well doneb: to attack physically : beat: to bring into existence : producedo a biography on the generalhas done some beautiful landscapesused as a substitute verb especially to avoid repetitionif you must make such a racket, do it somewhere elsea
: to play the role or character ofb: mimicalso : to behave likedo a Houdini and disappearc
: to perform in or serve as producer of: to treat unfairlyespecially : cheatdid him out of his inheritance
: to treat or deal with in any way typically with the sense of preparation or with that of care or attention:(2): washdid the dishes after supperb
: to prepare for use or consumptiond: to apply cosmetics towanted to do her face before the party: to be engaged in the study or practice ofespecially : to work at as a vocation: tourdoing 12 countries in 30 daysa: to spend (time) in prisonhas been doing time in a federal penitentiaryb: to serve out (a period of imprisonment)did ten years for armed robbery: to approve especially by custom, opinion, or proprietyyou oughtn't to say a thing like that it's not done
Dorothy Sayers
: to treat with respect to physical comforts
: to have sexual intercourse with
intransitive verbb: to carry on business or affairs : managewe can do without your help: to take place : happenwhat's doing across the street: to come to or make an end : finish used in the past participlehe had done with speech for that evening and gave us no reply
Arnold Bennett: to be active or busylet us then be up and doing
H. W. Longfellow: to be adequate or sufficient : serve
: to be fitting : conform to custom or proprietyused as a substitute verb to avoid repetitionwanted to run and play as children doused especially in British English following a modal auxiliary or perfective havea great many people had died, or would do
Bruce Chatwin
used in the imperative after an imperative to add emphasis
auxiliary verbaused with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in legal and parliamentary language and in poetrygive what she did crave
Shakespearebused with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in declarative sentences with inverted word orderfervently do we pray
Abraham Lincoln, in interrogative sentences , and in negative sentences
used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses expressing emphasis
see also doable
: a command or entreaty to do something: hairdoThe wind messed up his do.music : the first tone of the major scale in solfège: doctor of osteopathic medicineHe earned a DO from Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine.Today, close to 120 osteopathic physiciansDOsand about 2,050 MDs practice in Tucson, according to the [Pima] medical society.
Jane Erikson
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