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Verb
  1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker
    1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
    2. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
    3. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
    4. (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; not generally used with auxiliaries such as "be".
  2. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
  3. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
  5. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
  6. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
  7. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
  8. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
  9. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something)
  10. To cook.
  11. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
  12. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
  13. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
  14. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
  15. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
  16. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
  17. (transitive, slang) To kill.
  18. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
  19. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
  20. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
  21. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
  22. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
  23. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
  24. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
  25. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
  26. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
  27. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
  28. (transitive) To take drugs.
  29. (idiomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason
Noun
  1. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
  2. (informal) A hairdo.
  3. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
  4. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
  5. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do; A period of confusion or argument.
  6. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
Noun
  1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
Adverb
  1. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.
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