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do
  1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker
    1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
    2. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
    3. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
    4. (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; not generally used with auxiliaries such as "be".
  2. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
  3. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
  5. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
  6. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
  7. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
  8. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  9. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something)
  10. To cook.
  11. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  12. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
  13. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
  14. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  15. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
  16. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
  17. (transitive, slang) To kill.
  18. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  19. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
  20. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
  21. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  22. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
  23. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  24. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  25. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  26. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
  27. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
  28. (transitive) To take drugs.
  29. (idiomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason
  30. Synonyms:
  31. Examples:
    1. “So what do we have to do to fix this issue?”
      “My hope is that by reporting on bad behavior like this, I can do some good.”
      “Enough talk. Let's do it!”
done
deed
  1. (informal) To transfer real property by deed.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is the photoplay's comic notion to have the wealthy Harrison Allen deed his fortune to daughter Gracie for sixty days so that he might honestly admit his poverty and so discourage a fortune-seeking suitor of his other daughter.”
doing
doe
  1. Obsolete spelling of do
deeds
doin
  1. Eye dialect spelling of doing.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Some would be plowing, some blacksmithing an each one doin what he had done while he wuz livin.”
doth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of do
  2. Examples:
    1. “Not much of note, except for this section where methinks he doth protest too much about being more than just a legislator.”
      “Nay, we hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, falsehood doth perish!”
      “The thirst that from the soul doth rise, doth ask a drink divine, but might I of Jove's nectar cup, I will not change for thine.”
does
doeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of do
  2. Examples:
    1. “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
      “Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life, and doeth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart.”
      “And the little Orestes will wail, not knowing what he doeth, seeing he is but a babe.”
deeded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of deed
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “So the field and the cave in it were deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site.”
      “The sixty feet now claimed by the Defendants lies north of the lane, clearly on the land deeded to the Plaintiffs.”
      “By the time I was born, my father's legacy consisted of the manse, which was deeded to the ground, and his blood.”
dost
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of do
  2. Examples:
    1. “But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?”
      “Behold, he said to his father, 'Why dost thou worship that which heareth not and seeth not, and can avail thee aught?”
      “Yet no faith will the greater part of mankind have, however ardently thou dost desire it.”
doest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of do
  2. Examples:
    1. “When the wallpaper is humid it doesn't bubble and doest crinkle at the edges.”
      “The actions of the Prophet were witnessed by the people and they said to him, What doest thou?”
      “When thou doest acts of injustice thou becomest the second of these three, and if these be merciful thou also mayest be merciful.”
didst
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of do
  2. Examples:
    1. “How changed From him, who in the happy realms of light Clothed with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright.”
      “By Thy cruel Passion and Death, Thou didst open for us the gates of heaven.”
      “Why didst thou grant them exemption until those who told the truth were seen by thee in a clear light, and thou hadst proved the liars?”
doed
  1. (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of do
deeding
did
  1. simple past tense of do
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A further penalty of ten pounds a month was inflicted on anyone keeping a schoolmaster who did not attend the Protestant service.”
      “The British Constitution, however, did not accept it and George IV later moved on.”
      “Though most of the Radical Reformers were Anabaptist, some did not identify themselves with the mainstream Anabaptist tradition.”
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