do

v

1. perform, execute, Scot, and North Eng. Obs. gar, discharge, carry out, fulfill, realize; succeed in, manage, bring off, Sl. pull off, Inf. put over, U.S. Sl. swing, U.S. Sl. cut, U.S. Sl. hack; engineer, negotiate, work out; bring about, make happen, effect, effectuate; produce, turn out, achieve, attain.

2. accomplish, finish, complete, carry through; dispose of, Sl. knock off, Sl. polish off, expedite, dispatch; conclude, close, wind up, clinch, clench, seal; perfect, crown, top, cap, put the last or finishing touch to, consummate; end, put an end to, terminate.

3. render, afford, give, bear, pay, put forth; observe, keep, practice.

4. serve, suffice for, be enough, be adequate, measure up, pass muster; answer, satisfy, suit, content, appease.

5. make, prepare, fix, make ready, get ready, arrange.

6. create, originate, form, design, fashion, fabricate; develop, shape, mold.

7.Informal. wear out, exhaust, do in, tire, fatigue; overcome, ruin, conquer, defeat.

8.Informal. cheat, trick, deceive, cozen, dupe, take advantage of; swindle, defraud, do out of, fleece, bilk.

9. act, conduct, comport, behave; carry oneself, manage onself, bear oneself.

10. proceed, continue, go ahead; get along, fare, manage, make out; do well, succeed in, make good.

11. happen, transpire, take place, occur, go on; arise, appear, chance, turn up, crop up, come up.

12. do away with

a. abolish, put an end to, repeal, revoke, rescind; cancel, invalidate, nullify, annul, make void.b. kill, slay, murder, shoot, put to death; do in, get rid of, put away, remove, finish off; liquidate, erase, blot or wipe out, Sl. rub out, Sl. bump off, Sl. knock off, Sl. snuff out.

13. do without

forgo, dispense with; give up, abstain from, eschew, refrain from, forbear, desist.

n

14. action, activity, commotion, excitement; bustle, hustle, flurry, fuss, Inf. to-do, bother; hubbub, racket, tumult, disturbance, ferment, uproar.

15.Chiefly Brit. party, affair, occasion, soiree, fete.

16. do’s and don’ts

customs, rules, regulations; standard, code, policy, guide, precept, formula.