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- is that mess in the kitchen your doing?
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- that outfit just won't do for the opera
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- even half of that amount of sugar will do
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- do as much as you can and leave the rest
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- did the living room in French provincial style
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- adorning,
- arraying,
- beautifying,
- bedecking,
- bedizening,
- blazoning,
- caparisoning,
- decking,
- decorating,
- doing up,
- dolling up,
- draping,
- dressing,
- embellishing,
- emblazing,
- embossing,
- enriching,
- fancifying,
- fancying up,
- festooning,
- garnishing,
- glitzing (up),
- gracing,
- gussying up,
- ornamenting,
- prettying (up),
- trimming
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- I'm doing just fine
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- this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good
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- the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again
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- how are you doing with the house restoration?
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- she's done Eliza Doolittle on the stage so many times that she can probably play the flower girl in her sleep
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- coacting
- (or co-acting),
- costarring
- (or co-starring)
- did them out of their savings with surprising ease
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- beating,
- bilking,
- bleeding,
- cheating,
- chiseling
- (or chiselling),
- chousing,
- conning,
- cozening,
- defrauding,
- diddling,
- doing in,
- euchring,
- fiddling,
- fleecing,
- flimflamming,
- gaffing,
- hosing
- [slang],
- hustling,
- mulcting,
- nobbling
- [British slang],
- plucking,
- reaming,
- ripping off,
- rooking,
- screwing,
- shaking down,
- shortchanging,
- shorting,
- skinning,
- skunking,
- squeezing,
- sticking,
- stiffing,
- stinging,
- suckering,
- swindling,
- thimblerigging,
- victimizing
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- no one is sure who did them in that alley
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- bashing,
- basting,
- battering,
- batting,
- beating,
- belaboring,
- belting,
- birching,
- bludgeoning,
- buffeting,
- bunging up,
- clubbing,
- currying,
- drubbing,
- fibbing
- [British],
- flogging,
- hammering,
- hiding,
- lacing,
- lambasting,
- lashing,
- lathering,
- licking,
- mauling,
- messing (up),
- paddling,
- pelting,
- pommeling
- (or pommelling),
- pounding,
- pummeling
- (also pummelling),
- punching out,
- roughing (up),
- slating,
- slogging,
- switching,
- tanning,
- thrashing,
- threshing,
- thumping,
- tromping,
- walloping,
- whaling,
- whipping,
- whopping
- (or whapping),
- whupping,
- working over
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- assailing,
- assaulting,
- attacking,
- besetting,
- boxing,
- busting,
- chopping,
- clobbering,
- clouting,
- cracking,
- cudgeling
- (or cudgelling),
- cuffing,
- descending (on or upon),
- hitting,
- jumping (on),
- knocking,
- lamming,
- laying on,
- pasting,
- pouncing (on or upon),
- punching,
- raiding,
- rushing,
- slamming,
- slapping,
- smacking,
- smashing,
- socking,
- spanking,
- storming,
- swatting,
- swiping,
- thwacking,
- whacking,
- whamming,
- whomping
Phrases Synonymous with doing
- nothing's ever doing in this boring little town
Synonyms for doing
- befalling,
- being,
- betiding,
- chancing,
- coming,
- coming about,
- coming down,
- coming off,
- cooking,
- going down
- [slang],
- going on,
- happening,
- happing,
- occurring,
- passing,
- transpiring
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“Doing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doing. Accessed 29 May. 2022.
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The first known use of doing was in the 14th century
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