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Synonyms of the word 
DO → ACCOMPLISH - ACT - ACTION - ANSWER - ARRANGE - BASH - BEHAVE - BRAWL - CAUSE - COIF - COIFFE - COIFFURE - COME - CREATE - DOCTORATE - DOH - DRESS - EXECUTE - EXERCISE - FARE - FULFIL - FULFILL - GO - GROOM - LOCOMOTE - MAKE - MANAGE - MOVE - NEATEN - PARTY - PASS - PERFORM - PRACTICE - PRACTISE - PROCEED - SATISFY - SERVE - SET - SPEND - SUFFICE - TRAVEL - UTdo- v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
- v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
- v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
- v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
- v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
- v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
- v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
- v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
- v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- v. To cook.
- v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
- v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
- v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
- v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
- v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
- v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
- v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
- v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
- v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
- v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
- v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
- v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
- v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
- v. (transitive) To take drugs.
- v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
- n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
- n. (informal) A hairdo.
- n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
- n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
- n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
- n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
- n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
- n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
- adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.
accomplish- v. (transitive) To finish successfully.
- v. (transitive) To complete, as time or distance.
- v. (transitive) To execute fully; to fulfill; to complete successfully.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished;…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To gain; to obtain.
act- n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
- n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
- n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- n. The process of doing something.
- n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
- n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- n. (countable) Any organized activity.
- n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
- n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
- n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- v. (intransitive) To do something.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
- v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
- v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- v. (transitive) To play (a role).
- v. (transitive) To feign.
- v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
action- n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
- n. A way of motion or functioning.
- n. A fast-paced activity.
- n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
- n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
- n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
- n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
- n. (military) Combat.
- n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
- n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
- n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
- n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
- n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
- interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
- v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
- v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.
answer- n. A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
- n. A solution to a problem.
- n. (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a reply or response to.
- v. (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- v. To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- v. (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
- v. To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- v. To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
- v. To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform;…
- v. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification;…
- v. To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- v. (obsolete) To render account to or for.
- v. (obsolete) To atone; to be punished for.
- v. (obsolete) To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
arrange- v. To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
- v. To put in order, to organize.
- v. To plan; to prepare in advance.
- v. (music) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original…
bash- v. To strike heavily.
- v. To collide.
- v. To criticize harshly.
- n. A large party; gala event.
- n. An attack that consists of placing all one's weight into a downward attack with one's fists.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
behave- v. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
- v. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
- v. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.
brawl- n. A fight, usually with a large number of people involved.
- v. To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
- v. To complain loudly; to scold.
- v. To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
cause- n. (countable, often with of, typically of adverse results) The source of, or reason for, an event or action;…
- n. (uncountable, especially with for and a bare noun) Sufficient reason for a state, as of emotion.
- n. (countable) A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
- n. (obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
- n. (countable, obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
- n. (countable, law) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his…
- v. To set off an event or action.
- v. To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
- v. To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
coif- n. A hairdo.
- n. A hood; a close-fitting cap covering much of the head, widespread until XVIII century; after that worn…
- n. An item of chain mail headgear.
- n. An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.
- v. (transitive) To style or arrange hair.
coiffe- v. Alternative spelling of coif.
coiffure- n. hairstyle.
- v. (transitive) to style or arrange hair.
come- v. (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
- v. (intransitive) To arrive.
- v. (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
- v. (intransitive) To take a position to something else in a sequence.
- v. (intransitive, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- v. (copulative, figuratively, with close) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
- v. (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- v. (copulative, archaic) To become, to turn out to be.
- v. (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- v. (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
- v. (intransitive) Happen.
- v. (intransitive, with from or sometimes of) To have a social background.
- v. (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
- n. (obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.
- n. (slang) Semen.
- n. (slang) Female ejaculatory discharge.
- prep. Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
- interj. An exclamation to express annoyance.
- interj. An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
- n. (typography, obsolete) Alternative form of comma in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form…
create- v. (transitive) To bring into existence.
- v. (transitive) To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
- v. (intransitive) To be creative, imaginative.
- v. (transitive) To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
- v. (transitive) To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or…
- v. (transitive) To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre‐existent…
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
- adj. (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.
doctorate- n. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.
- v. (archaic, transitive) To make into a doctor.
doh- interj. Expresses surprise and consternation at a stupid mistake made by oneself, or another person.
- n. (music) An anglicised spelling of do. A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic…
dress- n. (countable) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part…
- n. (uncountable) Apparel, clothing.
- n. The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
- n. A dress rehearsal.
- v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To prepare oneself; to make ready.
- v. To adorn, ornament.
- v. (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting…
- v. (transitive) To treat (a wound, or wounded person).
- v. (transitive) To prepare (food) for cooking, especially by seasoning it.
- v. (transitive) To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone).
- v. (intransitive) To clothe oneself; to put on clothes.
- v. (intransitive) Of a man, to allow the genitals to fall to one side or other of the trousers.
- v. To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
- v. (transitive) To prepare the surface of (a material; usually stone or lumber).
- v. (transitive) To bolt or sift flour.
- v. (military, transitive, intransitive) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to…
- v. To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
execute- v. (transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
- v. (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
- v. (transitive) To perform.
- v. (transitive) To cause to become legally valid.
- v. (transitive, computing) To start, launch or run.
exercise- n. Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- n. Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.
- n. A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
- n. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- n. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
- v. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.
- v. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.
- v. (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
- v. (now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful…
- v. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.
fare- n. (obsolete) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
- n. Money paid for a transport ticket.
- n. A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
- n. Food and drink.
- n. Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
- n. (Britain, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
- v. (intransitive, archaic) To go, travel.
- v. (intransitive) To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience,…
- v. (intransitive) To eat, dine.
- v. (intransitive, impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
fulfil- v. (archaic) To fill up.
- v. To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
- v. To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
- v. To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
fulfill- v. (archaic) To fill full; fill to the utmost capacity; fill up.
- v. To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.).
- v. To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest.
- v. To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
go- v. To move.
- v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
- v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
- v. (intransitive) To attend.
- v. To proceed.
- v. To follow or travel along (a path).
- v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
- v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
- v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
- v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
- v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- v. To pass, to be used up.
- v. (intransitive) To die.
- v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
- v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
- v. To break down or apart.
- v. (intransitive) To be sold.
- v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
- v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
- v. To say (something), to make a sound.
- v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
- v. To apply or subject oneself to.
- v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
- v. (intransitive) To date.
- v. To attack.
- v. To be in general; to be usually.
- v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
- n. (uncommon) The act of going.
- n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- n. An attempt, a try.
- n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- n. An act; the working or operation.
- n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
- n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
- n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
- n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
- n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
- n. A period of activity.
- n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
- n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…
groom- n. A man who is about to become or has recently become part of a married couple. Short form of bridegroom.
- n. A person who cares for horses.
- n. One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department.
- n. A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse.
- v. To attend to one's appearance and clothing.
- v. To care for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.
- v. To prepare someone for election or appointment.
- v. To prepare a ski slope for skiers.
- v. (transitive) To attempt to gain the trust of somebody, especially a minor, with the intention of subjecting…
locomote- v. (now chiefly biology) To move or travel (from one location to another).
make- v. (transitive, heading) To create.
- v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
- v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- v. To constitute.
- v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
- v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
- v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
- v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
- v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
- v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
- v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
- v. To appoint; to name.
- v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
- v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
- v. To enact; to establish.
- v. To develop into; to prove to be.
- v. To form or formulate in the mind.
- v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
- v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
- v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
- v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
- v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
- n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
- n. How a thing is made; construction.
- n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
- n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
- n. A person's character or disposition.
- n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
- n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
- n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
- n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
- n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
- n. (slang, military) A promotion.
- n. A home-made project.
- n. (basketball) A made basket.
- n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
- n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
manage- v. (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
- v. (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
- v. (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
- v. (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt.
- v. (intransitive) To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
- v. To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
- v. (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
- v. (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
- n. (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
- n. (horseriding) Manège.
move- v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
- v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
- v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
- v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
- v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
- v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
- v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
- v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
- v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
- n. The act of moving; a movement.
- n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
- n. The event of changing one's residence.
- n. A change in strategy.
- n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…
neaten- v. To make neat; arrange in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.
party- n. (law) A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action.
- n. A person.
- n. (now rare in general sense) A group of people forming one side in a given dispute, contest etc.
- n. A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues…
- n. (military) A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose.
- n. A social gathering.
- n. (obsolete) A part or division.
- v. (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
- v. (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
- v. (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
- v. (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
- adj. (obsolete, except in compounds) Divided; in part.
- adj. (heraldry) Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries.
- adv. (obsolete) Partly.
pass- v. (heading) Physical movement.
- v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
- v. (heading) To move through time.
- v. (heading) To be accepted.
- v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
- v. (heading) To do or be better.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
- n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
- n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- n. An attempt.
- n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- n. A sexual advance.
- n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
- n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
- n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
- n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
- n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
- n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
- n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
perform- v. To do something; to execute.
- v. To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.
practice- n. Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- n. An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- n. (uncountable) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
- n. (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- n. The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- n. A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- n. Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- n. (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various…
- n. Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- n. (mathematics) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in…
- v. US spelling of practise.
practise- v. (transitive) To repeat (an acitivity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- v. (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
- v. (transitive) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
- v. (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire.
- v. To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- v. To make use of; to employ.
- v. To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- n. Misspelling of practice.
proceed- v. (intransitive) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
- v. (intransitive) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- v. (intransitive) To come from (have as the source or origin).
- v. (intransitive) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures;…
- v. (intransitive) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- v. (intransitive, of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- v. (law, intransitive) To begin and carry on a legal process.
satisfy- v. (transitive) To do enough for; to meet the needs of; to fulfill the wishes or requirements of.
- v. (transitive) To cause (a sentence) to be true when the sentence is interpreted in one's universe.
- v. (dated, literary, transitive) To convince by ascertaining; to free from doubt.
- v. (transitive) To pay to the extent of what is claimed or due.
- v. (transitive) To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.
serve- n. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
- n. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
- v. (heading, personal) To provide a service.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
- v. (heading) To be effective.
- v. (heading, transitive, law) To deliver a document.
- v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball,…
- v. (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
- v. (intransitive) To be in military service.
- v. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
- v. (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
- v. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing…
set- v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
- v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
- v. (transitive) To adjust.
- v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
- v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
- v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- v. (intransitive) To solidify.
- v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
- v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- v. To place or fix in a setting.
- v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
- v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
- v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
- n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
- n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
- n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
- n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
- n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
- n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
- n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
- n. A young oyster when first attached.
- n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
- n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- adj. Fixed in position.
- adj. Rigid, solidified.
- adj. Ready, prepared.
- adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
- adj. Prearranged.
- adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
- adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- n. A rudimentary fruit.
- n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
- n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- n. An object made up of several parts.
- n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
- n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- n. The scenery for a film or play.
- n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
- v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.
spend- v. To pay out (money).
- v. To bestow; to employ; often with on or upon.
- v. (dated) To squander.
- v. To exhaust, to wear out.
- v. To consume, to use up (time).
- v. (dated, intransitive) To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
- v. (intransitive) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
- v. To be diffused; to spread.
- v. (mining) To break ground; to continue working.
- n. Amount spent (during a period), expenditure.
- n. (pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money.
- n. Discharged semen.
- n. Vaginal discharge.
suffice- v. (intransitive) To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed;…
- v. (transitive) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
- v. To furnish; to supply adequately.
travel- v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
- v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
- v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
- v. (transitive) To force to journey.
- v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
- n. The act of traveling.
- n. pl A series of journeys.
- n. pl An account of one's travels.
- n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.
ut- n. (music, dated) Syllable (formerly) used in solfège to represent the first note of a major scale.
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