do
auxiliary verb
uk
/də/ /du/ /duː/ us
/də/ /du/ /duː/ did | donedo auxiliary verb (FOR QUESTIONS/NEGATIVES)
A1
A2
You don't understand the question, do you?
- ask after someone
- ask questions of someone/something idiom
- be someone's for the asking idiom
- beat something out of someone
- bombard
- consultative
- Gallup poll
- inquisition
- inquisitor
- pin someone down
- ply someone with something
- poll
- pry
- put someone through the mill idiom
- put someone through the wringer idiom
- put someone to something idiom
- query
- quiz
- shoot
- trick question
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
do auxiliary verb (TO AVOID REPEATING)
"May I join you?" "Please do!"
"Who said that?" "I did."
- I'm all for sexual equality, but I don't want my wife earning more than I do.
- The government has failed to raise educational standards, despite its promise to do so.
- Please don't get involved with him. You'll regret it if you do.
- Don't mix up the bottles - you'll have to repeat the experiment if you do.
- On average, people who don't smoke are healthier than people who do.
do auxiliary verb (FOR EMPHASIS)
- accentuate
- accentuation
- all day long idiom
- believe
- deadass
- drive your message/point home idiom
- drive/hammer something home idiom
- highlight
- impress something on/upon someone
- insistency
- insistently
- intensely
- like blazes idiom
- percent
- ram
- sooth
- stress
- vaunt
- work/laugh/freeze, etc. your arse off idiom
- work/laugh/freeze, etc. your ass off idiom
Grammar
do
verb
uk
/də/ /du/ /duː/ us
/də/ /du/ /duː/ did | donedo verb (PERFORM)
That was a really stupid thing to do.
What are you doing over the weekend?
UK Why were you sent to see the headmaster? What have you done now?
UK What have you done (= made happen) to her?
US What did you do (= make happen) to her?
What are these toys doing here? (= Why are they here?)
What can I do for you? (= How can I help you?)
UK What have you done with (= where have you put) my coat?
US What did you do with (= where did you put) my coat?
do something about something
- The work that the students do during the year will count towards their final degrees.
- My boss wants me to do a day-release course in computing.
- She has to do a lot of driving in her job.
- They've always encouraged me in everything I've wanted to do.
- I do a few stretches every morning to loosen up before I run.
- (your) every move idiom
- -ence
- act
- act for someone
- act/do something on your own responsibility idiom
- ADL
- agency
- ant
- beat
- er
- execution
- exploit
- move
- put your money where your mouth is idiom
- responsibility
- role-play
- rot
- step
- stuff
- talk
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
do verb (ACT)
- Should the government do more to help young couples buy their own homes?
- I wish you'd do something about your bedroom - it's a real mess.
- He would never do anything to endanger the lives of his children.
- Just do whatever you think fit - I'm sure you'll make the right decision.
- I'm not happy with the situation but, you know, there isn't much I can do about it.
do verb (CONNECTED)
to do with
B2
connected with:
"Why did you want to talk to me?" "Well, it's to do with a complaint that's been made about your work."
"But I didn't have any money." "What does that have to do with it? You still shouldn't have taken my wallet without asking me."
"I thought I should tell you I saw your son smoking today." "Mind your own business! What my son does has nothing to do with you!"
- be aboutWhat is the story about?
- have (got) to do withWhat's that got to do with it?
- relate toThat relates to what I was saying earlier about the need for reform.
- concernThe film concerns the complicated nature of marriage.
- coverWe will cover the passive voice later in the course.
- deal withWe will deal with the use of antidepressants in chapter three.
do verb (DEAL WITH)
A1 [ T ]
to deal with or be responsible for something:
- addressable
- approach
- attack
- attend to someone/something
- be all over it idiom
- beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
- bed
- cut
- grip
- have it out with someone idiom
- hold
- hold on idiom
- I/I've got this idiom
- ill-prepared
- square
- tend to someone/something
- to get a handle on something idiom
- to have a handle on something idiom
- tough
- tough something out
do verb (STUDY)
- "What degree did you do at York?" "Geography."
- Tim did a three-year course in linguistics at Newcastle.
- She did English literature at St Andrews before going abroad to teach.
- Richard did engineering at Manchester University.
- This problem should be easy enough for someone who's done physics at A level.
do verb (SOLVE)
to do a puzzle
I've never been able to do crosswords.
do verb (MAKE)
[ + two objects ] UK Can you do me 20 photocopies of this report/do 20 photocopies of this report for me?
- He's upstairs doing his homework, believe it or not.
- I've been doing some research on our family history and I've dug up some interesting information.
- Please don't disturb Georgina - she's trying to do her homework.
- In our third year at college everyone had to do a special project.
- He's done some lovely watercolours.
do verb (FINISH)
[ I ] UK
If you say that you have done with something or someone, or have done performing a particular action, you mean that you have finished what you were doing with something or someone, or what you were saying to someone, or that you have finished the action:
- abstain
- abstain from something
- abstainer
- abstemious
- abstemiously
- cut
- desist
- disengagement
- finger
- forbear
- forbearance
- give up
- play hard to get idiom
- pull
- pull back
- step
- step back
- stop
- touch
- truck
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
do verb (CLEAN/MAKE TIDY)
B1 [ I or T ]
do verb (ARRANGE)
You've done those flowers beautifully.
Can anyone here do (= tie) bow-ties?
do verb (BE ACCEPTABLE)
C1 [ I or T ] mainly UK
to be acceptable, suitable, or enough:
[ + to infinitive ] It doesn't do to criticize your parents.
I don't have any grapefruit juice, but I've got some orange juice. Will that do (you)?
- acceptableYour essay was acceptable, but I think you could have done better.
- reasonableThey have a reasonable chance of winning.
- adequateThe law provides adequate compensation for robbery victims.
- passableI speak passable Spanish.
- will doIt's not perfect, but it'll do.
- age-barred
- answer
- appropriately
- be made for someone/something idiom
- become
- befit
- compatibly
- dress/look/act the part idiom
- extravagantly
- face
- fill/fit the bill idiom
- fit
- level
- misdirection
- out of order idiom
- someone's face doesn't fit idiom
- suit
- suit someone (right) down to the ground idiom
- topic
- unsympathetically
do verb (CAUSE TO HAVE)
- accommodate
- accommodate someone with something
- administer
- administration
- afford
- arm someone with something
- dish
- hand off
- hand something back
- hand something down
- hand something in
- hand something out
- outfit
- provision
- re-equipment
- reassign
- reassignment
- rebid
- regift
- render
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
do verb (COOK)
- batch cooking
- biga
- bind
- boil
- butter
- buttered
- can't boil an egg idiom
- clarify
- glaze
- glazed
- grate
- ingredient
- jerk
- recipe
- rehydrate
- restuff
- rice
- rustle something up
- toss
- zap
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
do verb (MANAGE)
- I wouldn't say she's rich, but she's doing all right.
- You're doing really well - don't lose heart now.
- I was doing really well with my diet, but I'm afraid I've let it slide recently.
- The whole nation was force-fed government propaganda about how well the country was doing.
- They're doing fantastically well this season.
- balancing act
- be left holding the baby idiom
- bear up
- bite
- bite off more than you can chew idiom
- cut
- heat
- hold
- juggle
- juggling
- keep body and soul together idiom
- keep your head above water idiom
- keep/hold your end up idiom
- manage
- roll
- scrape through (something)
- sink or swim idiom
- stretch to something
- stride
- subsist
do verb (PLAY)
do verb (VISIT)
[ T ] informal
We didn't get to do Nice when we were in France.
do verb (STEAL)
do verb (CHEAT)
do verb (PRISON)
do verb (PUNISH)
- ankle bracelet
- ankle tag
- ball and chain
- bar
- be brought/called to account idiom
- discipline
- endorse
- endorsement
- fixed penalty
- flay
- flay someone alive idiom
- get what's coming to you idiom
- gross misconduct
- penalty
- sentence
- skin someone alive idiom
- slam dunk
- someone should be shot idiom
- sort
- sort something out
