Do Definition
(rare) Abbreviation of ditto.
- To prefer not to experience or deal with:
I could do without their complaints.
- To vanish.
- To make an end of; eliminate.
- To destroy; kill.
- To engage in sexual intercourse.
- To act or perform in a way that gives cause for pride.
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Do
- can
- do a disappearing act
- do away with
- do it
- do (one) proud
- do (one's) bit
- do (one's) business
- do (one's) own thing
- do down
- do in
- do over
- do right by someone
- do's and don'ts
- do up
- do up right
- do oneself well
- do with
- do without
- have to do with
Origin of Do
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From Middle English don (“to do”), from Old English dōn (“to do”), from Proto-Germanic *dōną (“to do”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do, make”). Cognate with Scots dae (“to to”), West Frisian dwaan (“to do”), Dutch doen (“to do”), Low German doon (“to do”), German tun (“to do”), Latin facio (“I do, make”), Ancient Greek τίθημι (tithēmi), Lithuanian dėti (“to put”), Polish dziać (“to happen”), Albanian ndodh (“to happen, occur, to be located”), Russian делать (delatʹ, “to do”), Sanskrit दधाति (dádhāti), Russian деть (detʹ, “to put, to place”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English don from Old English dōn dhē- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Italian more singable replacement of ut gamut
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Italian do.
From Wiktionary
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Short for ditto.
From Wiktionary
From the above verb.
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