TO DO FOR

Definition: TO DO FOR

TO DO FOR

1. (a) To answer for; to serve as; to suit. (b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.] Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their victim is stabbed and done for. --Thackeray.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO DO FOR

Ok Mr. Spielbergo I want you to do for me want Spielberg did for Oskar Schindler (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Everything we've set out to do for this whole entire movie has been basically a quest for deep trouble, and we found it a lot. (Making of 'Jackass: The Movie'; writing credit: Danny Miller)

For you, it will do anything you tell me to tell it to do for you. (Superman III; writing credit: David Newman; Leslie Newman)

Sorry, Pete, I know we're kin, but they got this depression on. I got to do for me and mine (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

I think this is something that the captain needs to do for himself (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)

What I try to do for me (Edge of Seventeen; performing artist: Stevie Nicks)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Simple Indulgence: Easy, Everyday Things to Do for Me (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Health

Older children in particular welcome the opportunity to be taken into their parents' confidence and will often respond in helpful ways. Finding things for them to do for their sick brother or sister, or their worried parents, gives many young people a sense of belonging and usefulness that might otherwise be lacking in the family's focus on cancer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Hungarian

tönkretesz (blemish, cripple, crock, destroy, do for, flatten out, perish, ruin, scathe, spoil, to batter, to blast, to blemish, to bring to ruin, to crash, to craze, to disorder, to hamstring, to lay flat, to lay low, to ravage, to scathe, to spoil, to vandalize, to wreck), megfelel vmi helyett, megfelel vki helyett, megöl (kill, murder, put to death, slain, slew, to account for, to check sy out, to cold-cock, to deep-six, to dump, to ice, to kill, to martyr, to murder, to put over, to put to death, to put to the sword, to slay, to snuff, to unlive, unlive), gondoskodik vkiről (to fend for sy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

為て遣る (to deceive, to hoodwink). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

してやる (to deceive, to hoodwink). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay oday orfay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fordo.

-3 letters: door, food, foot, ford, fort, odor, ordo, rood, roof, root, roto, toro, trod.

-4 letters: dor, dot, for, fro, oft, oot, ort, rod, rot, tod, too, tor.

-5 letters: do, od, of, or, to.

+2 letters: footboard.

+3 letters: footboards.

+4 letters: mothproofed.