n. 25B6; verb
she does most of the manual work : CARRY OUT, undertake, discharge, execute, perform, accomplish, achieve; bring about, engineer; informal pull off; formal effectuate.
they can do as they please : ACT, behave, conduct oneself, acquit oneself; formal comport oneself.
regular coffee will do : SUFFICE, be adequate, be satisfactory, fill/fit the bill, serve one's purpose, meet one's needs.
the boys will do the dinner : PREPARE, make, get ready, see to, arrange, organize, be responsible for, be in charge of; informal fix.
the company are doing a new range 007C; a portrait I am doing : MAKE, create, produce, turn out, design, manufacture; paint, draw, sketch; informal knock up/off.
each room was done in a different colour : DECORATE, furnish, ornament, deck out, trick out; informal do up.
her maid did her hair : STYLE, arrange, adjust; brush, comb, wash, dry, cut; informal fix.
I am doing a show to raise money : PUT ON, present, produce; perform in, act in, take part in, participate in.
you've done me a favour : GRANT, pay, render, give.
show me how to do these equations : WORK OUT, figure out, calculate; solve, resolve.
she's doing archaeology : STUDY, read, learn, take a course in.
what does he do? : HAVE AS A JOB, have as a profession, be employed at, earn a living at.
he is doing well at college : GET ON/ALONG, progress, fare, manage, cope; succeed, prosper.
he was doing 80mph : DRIVE AT, travel at, move at.
the cyclists do 30 miles per day : TRAVEL (OVER), journey, cover, traverse, achieve, notch up, log; informal chalk up.
(informal) we're doing Scotland this summer : VISIT, tour, sightsee in.
25B6; noun (Brit. informal) he invited us to a grand do : PARTY, reception, gathering, celebration, function, social event/occasion, social, soirée; informal bash, shindig; Brit. informal knees-up, beanfeast, bunfight; Austral./NZ informal rage, jollo.
25A0; do away with
they want to do away with the old customs : ABOLISH, get rid of, discard, remove, eliminate, discontinue, stop, end, terminate, put an end/stop to, dispense with, drop, abandon, give up; informal scrap, ditch, dump.
(informal) she tried to do away with her husband. : See kill verb sense 1.
25A0; do someone/something down (informal) BELITTLE, disparage, denigrate, run down, deprecate, cast aspersions on, discredit, vilify, defame, criticize, malign; N. Amer. slur; informal have a go at, hit out at, knock, slam, pan, bad-mouth; Brit. informal rubbish, slag off.
25A0; do someone/something in (informal)
the poor devil's been done in. : See kill verb sense 1.
the long walk home did me in : WEAR OUT, tire out, exhaust, fatigue, weary, overtire, drain; informal shatter, take it out of; Brit. informal knacker.
I did my back in : INJURE, hurt, damage.
25A0; do something out (Brit. informal) DECORATE, furnish, ornament, deck out, trick out; informal do up.
25A0; do someone out of something (informal) SWINDLE OUT OF, cheat out of, trick out of, deprive of; informal con out of, diddle out of.
25A0; do something up
she did her bootlace up : FASTEN, tie (up), lace, knot; make fast, secure.
(informal) he's had his house done up : RENOVATE, refurbish, refit, redecorate, decorate, revamp, make over, modernize, improve, spruce up, smarten up; informal give something a facelift; N. Amer. informal rehab.
25A0; do without FORGO, dispense with, abstain from, refrain from, eschew, give up, cut out, renounce, manage without; formal forswear.