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(auxiliary)

To perform; to execute.

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(obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), ''(The Faerie Queene), II.vi:

Sometimes to doe him laugh, she would assay / To laugh at shaking of the leaues light, / Or to behold the water worke

* W. Caxton

My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences.

* Spenser

a fatal plague which many did to die

* Bible, 2 Cor. viii. 1

We do you to wit [i.e. we make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.

(transitive) To suffice.

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* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

"Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!" And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.

To be reasonable or acceptable.

To have (as an effect).

To fare; to succeed or fail.

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(chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.

To cook.

* , Three Men In a Boat

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* {{quote-news, 1944, , , News from the Suburbs, Punch citation

, passage=We went down below, and the galley-slave did some ham and eggs, and the first lieutenant, who was aged 19, told me about Sicily, and time went like a flash.}}

* {{quote-book, 2005, Alan Tansley, The Grease Monkey, page=99, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=V63jCdQpv2kC&pg=PA99

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To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.

* {{quote-book, 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, edition=1957 ed., page=, pageurl=

, passage=We 'did ' London to our heart's content, thanks to Fred and Frank, and were sorry to go away,

* {{quote-book, 1892, James Batchelder, Multum in Parvo: Notes from the Life and Travels of James Batchelder, page=97 citation

, passage=After doing Paris and its suburbs, I started for London

* {{quote-news, 1968, July 22, Ralph Schoenstein, Nice Place to Visit, New York Magazine citation

, passage=No tourist can get credit for seeing America first without doing New York, the Wonderful Town, the Baghdad-on-Hudson, the dream in the eye of the Kansas hooker

To treat in a certain way.

* {{quote-news, 1894, , , , Harper's citation

, passage=They did me well, I assure you — uncommon well: Bellinger of '84; green chartreuse fit for a prince;

* 1928 , , "The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers", in (Lord Peter Views the Body) ,

Upon my word, although he [my host] certainly did me uncommonly well, I began to feel I'd be more at ease among the bushmen.

* {{quote-book, 1994, Jervey Tervalon, Understand This, page=50 citation

, passage="Why you gonna do me like that?" I ask. "Do what?" "Dog me."}}

To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.

* Bible, 2 Kings xvii. 34

They fear not the Lord, neither do they after the law and commandment.

To spend (time) in jail.

To impersonate or depict.

(slang) To kill.

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(slang) To have sex with. (See also do it )

* {{quote-book, c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, section=Act IV, scene II, pageurl=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Titus_Andronicus

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* {{quote-book, 2008, On the Line, Donna Hill, page=84 citation

, passage=The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.}}

To cheat or swindle.

* De Quincey

He was not to be done , at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent.

To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.

(intransitive) To finish.

(UK, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for ).

* 1915 , Frank Thomas Bullen, Recollections

I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.

(archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.

* 1844 , William Barnes, Evenén in the Village , Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:

...An' the dogs do''' bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water '''do roar at mill.

(stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.

(informal) To make or provide.

Do they do haircuts there?

Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?

Verb

To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

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#* 1839 , Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist , Penguin 1985, page 87:

"What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah. "Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver.

#* 2000 , Stephen King, On Writing , Pocket Books 2002, page 85:

In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.

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#* 1865 , British Medical Journal , 4 Mar 1865, page 213:

She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.

#* 2007 , Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune , Tor 2007, page 191:

"Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb. . ."

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#* 1961 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:

Englishmen are dying' for England, Americans are '''dying''' for America, Germans are '''dying''' for Germany, Russians are ' dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.

#* 2003 , Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation , Routledge 2003, page 187:

Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.

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#* 1600 , William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing , Act III, Scene I:

Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die' with mockes, / Which is as bad as ' die with tickling.

#* 1830 , Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon , Richards 1854, page 337:

And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.

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She died with dignity.

To stop living and undergo (a specified death).

He died a hero's death.

They died a thousand deaths.

(figuratively) To yearn intensely.

* 1598 , (Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing), Act III, Scene II:

Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.

* 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century's end - Page 168

I could see that he was dying, dying' for a cigarette, '''dying''' for a fix maybe, ' dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.

(idiomatic) To be utterly cut off by family or friends, as if dead.

The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

(figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.

(colloquial) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I'll die .

(intransitive, of a, machine) to stop working, to break down.

My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.

(intransitive, of a, computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).

To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

* Spectator

letting the secret die within his own breast

* Tennyson

Great deeds cannot die .

To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.

* Bible, 1 Samuel xxv. 37

His heart died within, and he became as a stone.

To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

to die to pleasure or to sin

(architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.

To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.

(of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal...