to effect, perform, or carry out (an action or activity)
to do work on or have work done on (something) to get it in the required state
I can't do this sum
Shall we do the garden?
to work at (something) for a living or course of study
decided to do chemistry
to make or provide (something)
does a fine cheesecake
to put on or perform (a play, show, etc)
to play (a role)
to have a specified effect on (sombody)
A rest will do you good
to perform the expected service for (somebody)
The photographer will do you now
to travel at (a specified speed) or over (a specified distance)
doing at least 90 mph
did two hundred miles in a morning
informal to see (a place) as a tourist
want to do Prague next
informal to spend (a period of time) doing something, esp serving a prison sentence
He's doing five years for armed robbery
informal to be adequate or suitable for (somebody)
A light salad will do us for lunch
chiefly Brit, informal
to arrest or convict (somebody)
to attack or hurt (somebody)
to cheat or swindle (somebody)
informal to burgle and rob (premises)
informal to have sexual intercourse with (somebody)
informal to take (drugs)
to act or behave a certain way
Do as I say
to make progress in a specified way
They are all doing well at school
to carry on business or affairs; to manage
We can do without your help
informal to be happening
What's doing these days?
(often + with) to finish
Have you done with arguing?
to be adequate or suitable
Half of that will do
to be fitting; to conform to custom or propriety
It won't do to be late
used to form questions and negative statements
I did not agree
Please don't go
Do you like this place?
used in present and past tenses to emphasize a positive verb
I do hope you can come
Do be careful
They did ask us to help
used in legal language and poetry
to give what she did crave — Shakespeare
I do hereby bequeath
used in declarations with inverted word order
Fervently do we pray — Abraham Lincoln
used as a substitute for a verb already mentioned
I am earning more than I did last year
need or would like (something)
I could do with some peace and quiet
to put an end to or abolish (something)
to put (somebody) to death
to treat (somebody) in a specified way
They did very well by her
We felt somewhat hard done by
chiefly Brit, informal to keep house or clean for (somebody)
informal to wear out or exhaust (somebody)
informal to bring about the death or ruin of (somebody)
to cheat or deprive somebody of (something)
to enhance or fail to enhance the appearance of (somebody or something)
to manage in spite of not having (something)
to finish with or have no further concern with (something)
to refuse to have dealings with (sombody or something)
to be no concern of (somebody)
to deal with (something or somebody)
concerned with (something)
a job to do with insurance