transitive verb did, done, doing
- to execute; effect; perform (an act, action, etc.): do great deeds
- to carry out; fulfill: do what I tell you
- to bring to completion; finish: dinner has been done for an hour
- to bring about; cause; produce: it does no harm; who did this to you?
- to exert (efforts, etc.): do your best
- to have or take (a meal): let's do lunch
- to deal with as is required; attend to: do the ironing, do one's nails or hair
- to have as one's work or occupation; work at or on: what does he do for a living?
- to work out; solve: do a problem
- to produce or appear in (a play, etc.): we did Hamlet
- to play the role of: I did Polonius
- Informal to imitate, or behave characteristically as: to do a Houdini
- to write or publish (a book), compose (a musical score), etc.
- to cover (distance): to do a mile in four minutes
- to move along at a speed of: to do 60 miles an hour
- to visit as a sightseer; tour: they did England in two months
- to translate: to do Horace into English
- to give; render: to do honor to the dead
- to suit; be convenient to: this will do me very well
- Informal
- to prepare; cook: that restaurant does ribs really well
- to eat: let's do Mexican tonight
- Informal to cheat; swindle: you've been done
- Informal to serve (a jail term)
- Slang to take; ingest; use: we've never done drugs
- Slang to perform a sexual act upon; specif., to have sexual intercourse with
- Slang to kill