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[[t]du[/t]] unstressed [[t]dʊ, də[/t]]

v. and aux. v. pres. sing. 1st and 2nd pers. do,

1) to perform (an act, duty, role, etc.)

2) to execute (a piece or amount of work):

to do a hauling job[/ex]

3) to accomplish; finish:

He has already done it[/ex]

4) to put forth; exert:

Do your best[/ex]

5) to be the cause of (good, harm, credit, etc.); bring about; effect

6) to render, give, or pay (homage, justice, etc.)

7) to deal with, fix, clean, arrange, etc., (anything) as the case may require:

to do the dishes[/ex]

8) to travel; traverse:

We did 30 miles today[/ex]

9) to serve; suffice for:

This will do us for the present[/ex]

10) cvb to condone or approve, as by custom or practice:

That sort of thing simply isn't done[/ex]

11) to travel at the rate of (a specified speed)

12) to make or prepare:

I'll do the salad[/ex]

13) to serve (a term of time) in prison, or, sometimes, in office

14) to create or bring into being:

He does wonderful portraits[/ex]

15) to translate or change the form of:

They did the book into a movie[/ex]

16) to study or work at or in the field of:

I have to do my math tonight[/ex]

17) to explore or travel through as a sightseer:

They did Greece in 3 weeks[/ex]

18) cvb sts to use (drugs), esp. habitually

19) cvb sts Slang. to rob; steal from: The law got him for doing banks

20) to act or conduct oneself; behave

21) to proceed:

to do wisely[/ex]

22) to get along; fare; manage:

to do without an automobile[/ex]

23) to be in a specified state of health:

Mother and child are doing fine[/ex]

24) to serve or be satisfactory, as for the purpose; be enough; suffice:

Will this do?[/ex]

25) to finish or be finished

26) to happen; take place; transpire:

What's doing at the office?[/ex]

27) (used as a substitute to avoid repetition of a verb or full verb expression):

I think as you do[/ex]

28) fun (used in interrogative, negative, and inverted constructions):

Do you like music? I don't care. Seldom does one see such greed[/ex]

29) fun (used to lend emphasis to a principal verb):

Do visit us![/ex]

30) phv do away with

a) to put an end to; abolish

b) to kill

31) phv do for

a) to cause the defeat, ruin, or death of

b) brit. to keep house for; manage or provide for

32) phv do in

a) to kill; murder

b) to exhaust

33) phv do out of, Informal. to swindle; cheat

34) phv do over, to redecorate

35) phv do up

a) to wrap and tie up

b) to pin up or arrange (the hair)

c) to renovate or clean

d) to fasten:

Do up your coat[/ex]

e) to dress:

They were all done up in costumes[/ex]

36) phv do with, to benefit from; use

37) phv do without

to forgo; dispense with

38) inf Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; commotion

39) cvb inf Informal. a hairdo

40) brit. Brit. Slang. a swindle; hoax

41) brit. a festive affair; party

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- do or die dos and don'ts

Etymology: bef. 900; ME, OE dōn; c. OS dōn, OHG tuo(a)n; akin to L -dere to put (see add), facere to make, do II

do

[[t]doʊ[/t]] n. pl. dos

mad the musical syllable used for the first note of an ascending diatonic scale

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Etymology: 1745–55; < It, inverted var. of ut; see gamut