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      do
      noun
      (DoggoLingo, chiefly used with verbs)
      (UK, informal) A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
      (chiefly fossilized) Something that can or should be done.
      (UK, slang) A homicide.
      (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
      (US) a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
      (informal) Clipping of hairdo. [A hairstyle.]
      (grammar) Initialism of direct object. [(grammar, in languages without cases) The noun or noun phrase that a verb is directly acting upon.]
      (sciences) Initialism of dissolved oxygen.
      (dentistry) Initialism of disto-occlusal.
      (chiefly obsolete, fossilized in the UK) Something that has been done.
      (archaic) Ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
      (obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
      (obsolete, UK, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
      verb
      (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
      A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
      A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
      A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
      (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
      (modal, interrogative, informal) Ought to (especially in respect of a task to be repeated).
      (transitive) To perform; to execute.
      (ambitransitive) To suffice.
      (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
      (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
      (intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
      (especially England, intransitive) To fare well; to thrive; to prosper; (of livestock) to fatten.
      (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
      (transitive) To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
      (transitive) To cook.
      (transitive) To travel in or through, to tour, to make a circuit of.
      (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
      (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
      (transitive) To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
      (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
      (transitive, 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.
      (transitive, slang) To kill.
      (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
      (transitive, informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
      (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
      (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
      (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
      (ambitransitive) To finish.
      (transitive, finance) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
      (ditransitive, informal) To make or provide.
      (transitive, informal) To provide as a service.
      (transitive, informal) To injure (one's own body part).
      (transitive) To take (a drug).
      (transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
      (informal, transitive) To drive a vehicle at a certain speed, especially in regard to a speed limit.
      (dialectal) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
      (transitive, obsolete) To cause or make (someone) (do something).
      (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
      adverb
      (archaic) Abbreviation of ditto. [As said before, likewise.]
      Synonyms for do
      performvmakevmanagevbehavevexecutevsufficevactnaccomplishvundertakevcausen
      Words related to do
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