13 VERB You can use do when referring to the speed or rate that something or someone achieves or is able to achieve. □ [V amount] They were doing 70 miles an hour.
14 VERB If you do a subject, author, or book, you study them at school or college. [SPOKEN ] □ [V n] I'd like to do maths at university.
15 VERB If you do a particular person, accent, or role, you imitate that person or accent, or act that role. □ [V n] Gina does accents extremely well.
16 VERB If someone does drugs, they take illegal drugs. □ [V n] I don't do drugs.
17 VERB If you say that something will do or will do you, you mean that there is enough of it or that it is of good enough quality to meet your requirements or to satisfy you. □ [V ] Anything to create a scene and attract attention will do. □ [V n] 'What would you like to eat?'—'Anything'll do me, Eva.'
18 PHRASE If you say that you could do with something, you mean that you need it or would benefit from it. □ I could do with a cup of tea. □ The range could do with being extended.
19 PHRASE You can ask someone what they did with something as another way of asking them where they put it. □ What did you do with that notebook?
20 PHRASE If you ask what someone or something is doing in a particular place, you are asking why they are there. □ 'Dr Campbell,' he said, clearly surprised. 'What are you doing here?'
21 PHRASE If you say that one thing has something to do with or is something to do with another thing, you mean that the two things are connected or that the first thing is about the second thing. □ Mr Butterfield denies having anything to do with the episode. □ That's none of your business, it has nothing to do with you.
▸ do away with
1 PHRASAL VERB To do away with something means to remove it completely or put an end to it. □ [V P P n] The long-range goal must be to do away with nuclear weapons altogether.
2 PHRASAL VERB If one person does away with another, the first murders the second. If you do away with yourself , you kill yourself. [INFORMAL ] □ [V P P n] She thinks he may have done away with her sister.
▸ do for PHRASAL VERB [usu passive] If you say that you are done for , you mean that you are in a terrible and hopeless situation. [INFORMAL ] □ [be V -ed P ] We need his help or we're done for, dead and gone, lost.
▸ do in PHRASAL VERB To do someone in means to kill them. [INFORMAL ] □ [V n P ] Whoever did him in removed a man who was brave as well as ruthless. [Also V P n]
▸ do out PHRASAL VERB [usu passive] If a room or building is done out in a particular way, it is decorated and furnished in that way. [BRIT ] □ [be V -ed P ] …a room newly done out in country-house style.
▸ do out of PHRASAL VERB If you do someone out of something, you unfairly cause them not to have or get a particular thing that they were expecting to have. [INFORMAL ] □ [V n P P n] He complains that the others have done him out of his share.
▸ do over PHRASAL VERB If you do a task over , you perform it again from the beginning. [AM ] □ [V n P ] If she had the chance to do it over, she would have hired a press secretary.
▸ do up
1 PHRASAL VERB If you do something up , you fasten it. □ [V P n] Mari did up the buttons. □ [V n P ] Keep your scarf on, do your coat up.
2 PHRASAL VERB If you do up an old building, you decorate and repair it so that it is in a better condition. [BRIT ] □ [V n P ] Nicholas has bought a barn in Provence and is spending August doing it up. [Also V P n]
3 PHRASAL VERB [usu passive] If you say that a person or room is done up in a particular way, you mean they are dressed or decorated in that way, often a way that is rather ridiculous or extreme. □ [be V -ed prep/adv] …Beatrice, usually done up like the fairy on the Christmas tree.
▸ do without
1 PHRASAL VERB If you do without something you need, want, or usually have, you are able to survive, continue, or succeed although you do not have it. □ [V P n] We can't do without the help of your organisation. □ [V P ] We've had a bit more money and that, and the baby doesn't do without.
2 PHRASAL VERB If you say that you could do without something, you mean that you would prefer not to have it or it is of no benefit to you. [INFORMAL ] □ [V P n] He could do without her rhetorical questions at five o'clock in the morning.
➌ do /duː / (dos )
1 N‑COUNT A do is a party, dinner party, or other social event. [mainly BRIT , INFORMAL ] □ A friend of his is having a do in Stoke.
2 PHRASE If someone tells you the dos and don'ts of a particular situation, they advise you what you should and should not do in that situation. □ Please advise me on the most suitable colour print film and some dos and don'ts.
do. do. is an old-fashioned written abbreviation for ditto .
do|able /duː əbəl/ also do-able ADJ If something is doable , it is possible to do it. □ Is this project something that you think is doable?
d.o.b. d.o.b. is an old-fashioned written abbreviation for date of birth , used especially on official forms.
do|ber|man /doʊ bə r mən/ (dobermans ) N‑COUNT A doberman is a type of large dog with short dark fur.
doc /dɒ k/ (docs ) N‑VOC Some people call a doctor doc . [INFORMAL ]
doc|ile /doʊ sa I l, [AM ] dɑː s ə l/ ADJ A person or animal that is docile is quiet, not aggressive, and easily controlled. □ …docile, obedient children. ● do|cil|ity /dɒs I l I ti/ N‑UNCOUNT □ Her docility had surprised him. ● doc|ile|ly ADV [ADV with v] □ She stood there, docilely awaiting my decision.