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do
Synonyms and Antonyms of do
- it's supposed to be some sort of fancy do
bacchanal, bacchanalia, orgy, saturnalia
bake, clambake, cocktail party, hen party, house party, housewarming, icebreaker, kaffeeklatsch, kegger (also keg party), klatch (also klatsch), masquerade, meet and greet, mixer, salon, shower, social, soiree (or soirée), stag, supper, symposium, tea, tea party
- issued a long list of dos and don'ts before we even started the project
- you can tell that the picture was taken in the 1980s from my permed do
- in this hour of national crisis everyone must do their do
- in that small town a great deal of do could come from very little indeed
ado, alarums and excursions, ballyhoo, blather, bluster, bobbery, bother, bustle, clatter, clutter [chiefly dialect], coil, commotion, corroboree [Australian], disturbance, foofaraw, fun, furor, furore, fuss, helter-skelter, hoo-ha (also hoo-hah), hoopla, hubble-bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly, hurly-burly, hurricane, hurry, hurry-scurry (or hurry-skurry), kerfuffle [chiefly British], moil, pandemonium, pother, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, shindy, splore [Scottish], squall, stew, stir, storm, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar, welter, whirl, williwaw, zoo
calm, hush, peace, quiet, quietude, rest, stillness, tranquillity (or tranquility)
do
Synonyms and Antonyms of do
- do as much as you can and leave the rest
bring about, effect, effectuate, implement
engage (in), practice (also practise)
- did the living room in French provincial style
- I'm doing just fine
- this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good
- the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again
deride, gibe (or jibe), ridicule
duplicate, emulate, replicate, reproduce
act, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, feign, pretend, sham, simulate
elaborate, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, magnify, pad, play up, stretch
amplify, enhance, enlarge (on or upon), expand, flesh (out), overdraw, overstate, put on
- how are you doing with the house restoration?
- she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep
- did them out of their savings with surprising ease
beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize
- no one is sure who did them in that alley
bash, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor, belt, birch, bludgeon, buffet, bung up, club, curry, drub, fib [British], flog, hammer, hide, lace, lambaste (or lambast), lash, lather, lick, maul, mess (up), paddle, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punch out, rough (up), slate, slog, switch, tan, thrash, thresh, thump, tromp, wallop, whale, whip, whop (or whap), whup, work over
assail, assault, attack, beset, box, bust, chop, clobber, clout, crack, cudgel, cuff, descend (on or upon), hit, jump (on), knock, lam, lay on, paste, pounce (on or upon), punch, raid, rush, slam, slap, smack, smash, sock, spank, storm, swat, swipe, thwack, whack, wham, whomp
blackjack, cane, cowhide, flagellate, fustigate, horsewhip, leather, pistol-whip, rawhide, scourge, strap
- nothing's ever doing in this boring little town
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