1. to perform (an act, duty, role, etc.): Do nothing until you hear the bell.
2. to execute (a piece or amount of work): to do a hauling job.
3. to accomplish; finish; complete: He has already done his homework.
4. to put forth; exert: Do your best.
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, move, etc., (anything) as the case may require: to do the dishes.
8. to travel; traverse: We did 30 miles today.
9. to serve; suffice for: This will do us for the present.
10. to condone or approve, as by custom or practice: That sort of thing simply isn't done.
11. to travel at the rate of (a specified speed): He was doing 80 when they arrested him.
12. to make or prepare: I'll do the salad.
13. to serve (a term of time) in prison, or, sometimes, in office.
14. to create, form, or bring into being: She does wonderful oil portraits.
15. to translate into or change the form or language of: MGM did the book into a movie.
16. to study or work at or in the field of: I have to do my math tonight.
17. to explore or travel through as a sightseer: They did Greece in three weeks.
18. (used with a pronoun, as it or that, or with a general noun, as thing, that refers to a previously mentioned action): You were supposed to write thank-you letters; do it before tomorrow, please.
19. to wear out; exhaust; tire: That last set of tennis did me.
20. to cheat, trick, or take advantage of: That crooked dealer did him for $500 at poker.
21. to attend or participate in: Let's do lunch next week.
22. to use (a drug or drugs), especially habitually: The police report said he was doing cocaine.
23. to rob; steal from: The law got him for doing a lot of banks.
24. to have sex with.
25. (usually in the negative) to act in accordance with expectations associated with (something specified): Just ignore her insults—she doesn’t do polite.

26. to act or conduct oneself; be in action; behave.
27. to proceed: to do wisely.
28. to get along; fare; manage: to do without an automobile.
29. to be in health, as specified: Mother and child are doing fine.
30. to serve or be satisfactory, as for the purpose; be enough; suffice: Will this do?
31. to finish or be finished.
32. to happen; take place; transpire: What's doing at the office?
33. (used as a substitute to avoid repetition of a verb or full verb expression): I think as you do.

34. (used in interrogative, negative, and inverted constructions): Do you like music? I don't care. Seldom do we witness such catastrophes.
35. (used in imperatives with you or thou expressed; and occasionally as a metric filler in verse): Do thou hasten to the king's side. The wind did blow, the rain did fall.
36. (used to lend emphasis to a principal verb): Do visit us!

37. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
38. a hairdo or hair styling.
39. a swindle; hoax.
40. a festive social gathering; party.

41. to deal with; treat: He had always done well by his family.
42. do for,
• to cause the defeat, ruin, or death of.
• to cook and keep house for; manage or provide for.
43. do in, Informal.
• to kill, especially to murder.
• to injure gravely or exhaust; wear out; ruin: The tropical climate did them in.
• to cheat or swindle: He was done in by an unscrupulous broker.
44. to redecorate.
45. do up, Informal.
• to wrap and tie up.
• to pin up or arrange (the hair).
• to renovate; launder; clean.
• to wear out; tire.
• to fasten: Do up your coat.
• to dress: The children were all done up in funny costumes.
46. to gain advantage or benefit from; make use of: I could do with more leisure time.
47. do without,
• to forgo; dispense with.
• to dispense with the thing mentioned: The store doesn't have any, so you'll have to do without.

48. number (def. 38).
49. do away with,
• to put an end to; abolish.
• to kill.
50. proud (def. 11).
51. number (def. 39).
52. thing¹ (def. 22).
53. to make a supreme effort.
54. to swindle; cheat: A furniture store did me out of several hundred dollars.
55. customs, rules, or regulations: The dos and don'ts of polite manners are easy to learn.
56. to serve a term in prison: It's hard to get a decent job once you've done time.
57. death (def. 16).
58. have (def. 37).
59. to get along with what is at hand, despite its inadequacy: I can't afford a new coat so I have to make do with this one.

1. the syllable used for the first tone or keynote of a diatonic scale.
2. (in the fixed system of solmization) the tone C.

1. ditto.

1. delivery order.

1. direct object.
2. Doctor of Optometry.
3. Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.

1. to perform or complete (a deed or action)
2. to serve the needs of; be suitable for (a person, situation, etc); suffice
3. to arrange or fix
4. to prepare or provide; serve
5. to make tidy, elegant, ready, etc, as by arranging or adorning
6. to improve (esp in the phrase do something to or for)
7. to find an answer to (a problem or puzzle)
8. to translate or adapt the form or language of
9. to conduct oneself
10. to fare or manage
11. to cause or produce
12. to give or render
13. to work at, esp as a course of study or a profession
14. to perform (a play, etc); act
15. to travel at a specified speed, esp as a maximum
16. to travel or traverse (a distance)
17. used as an auxiliary before the subject of an interrogative sentence as a way of forming a question
18. used as an auxiliary to intensify positive statements and commands
19. used as an auxiliary before a negative adverb to form negative statements or commands
20. used as an auxiliary in inverted constructions
21. used as an auxiliary to replace an earlier verb or verb phrase to avoid repetition
22. to visit or explore as a sightseer or tourist
23. to wear out; exhaust
24. to happen (esp in the phrase nothing doing)
25. to serve (a period of time) as a prison sentence
26. to cheat or swindle
27. to rob
28. (tr) slang
• to arrest
• to convict of a crime
29. to lose or spend (money) completely
30. to treat violently; assault
31. to take or use (a drug)
32. (of a male) to have sexual intercourse with
33. to partake in (a meal)
34. to act like; imitate
35. to make a final or supreme effort
36. a conventional formula when being introduced
37. to manage with whatever is available

38. an act or instance of cheating or swindling
39. a formal or festive gathering; party
40. those things that should or should not be done; rules

1. a variant spelling of doh 1

1. Dominican Republic

1. Doctor of Optometry
2. Doctor of Osteopathy

1. ditto

1. delivery order

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