do

9 —used as a substitute verb especially to avoid repetition if you must make such a racket, do it somewhere else

10a :  to play the role or character of He did Hamlet on Broadway.b :  mimic; also :  to behave like do a Houdini and disappearc :  to perform in or serve as producer of do a play

11 :  to treat unfairly; especially :  cheat did him out of his inheritance

12 :  to treat or deal with in any way typically with the sense of preparation or with that of care or attention:a (1) :  to put in order :  clean was doing the kitchen (2) :  wash did the dishes after supperb :  to prepare for use or consumption; especially :  cook like my steak done rarec :  set, arrange had her hair doned :  to apply cosmetics to wanted to do her face before the partye :  decorate, furnish did the living room in Early American do over the kitchen

13 :  to be engaged in the study or practice of do science; especially :  to work at as a vocation what to do after college

14a :  to pass over :  traverse did 20 miles yesterdayb :  to travel at a speed of doing 55 on the turnpike

15 :  tour doing 12 countries in 30 days

16a :  to spend (time) in prison has been doing time in a federal penitentiaryb :  to serve out (a period of imprisonment) did ten years for armed robbery

17 :  to serve the needs of :  suit, suffice worms will do us for bait

18 :  to approve especially by custom, opinion, or propriety you oughtn't to say a thing like that … it's not done — Dorothy Sayers

19 :  to treat with respect to physical comforts did themselves well

20 :  use 3 doesn't do drugs

21 :  to have sexual intercourse with I'd do him.

22 :  to partake of Let's do lunch.

1 :  act, behave do as I say

2a :  get along, fare do well in schoolb :  to carry on business or affairs :  manage we can do without your help

3 :  to take place :  happen what's doing across the street

4 :  to come to or make an end :  finish —used in the past participle he had done with speech for that evening and gave us no reply — Arnold Bennett

5 :  to be active or busy let us then be up and doing — H. W. Longfellow

6 :  to be adequate or sufficient :  serve half of that will do

7 :  to be fitting :  conform to custom or propriety won't do to be late

8 —used as a substitute verb to avoid repetition wanted to run and play as children do ; used especially in British English following a modal auxiliary or perfective have a great many people had died, or would do — Bruce Chatwin

9 —used in the imperative after an imperative to add emphasis be quiet do

1a —used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in legal and parliamentary language do hereby bequeath and in poetry give what she did crave — Shakespeareb —used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in declarative sentences with inverted word order fervently do we pray — Abraham Lincoln, in interrogative sentences did you hear that?, and in negative sentences we don't know don't go

2 —used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses expressing emphasis I do say do be careful