Do In

Definition: Do In

Do In

Verb

1. Get rid of; kill; "The mafia liquidated the informer".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Do In

Destruction

Destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.

Failure

Verb: fail; be unsuccessful; Adjective: not succeed; make vain efforts;Noun: do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk; lose one's labor, take nothing by one's motion; bring to naught, make nothing of; wash a blackamoor white; (impossible); roll the stones of Sisyphus; (useless); do by halves; (not complete); lose ground; (recede); fall short of.

Prosperity

Adjective: prosperous; thriving; Verb: in a fair way, buoyant; well off, well to do, well to do in the world; set up, at one's ease; rich; in good case; in full, in high feather; fortunate, lucky, in luck; born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born under a lucky star; on the sunny side of the hedge.

Crosswords: Do In

Is there anything we can do in the meantime? (Hollow Man; writing credit: Gary Scott Thompson; Andrew W. Marlowe)

Judge Gaffney, is that all those doctors do in places like that - think about sex? (Harvey; writing credit: Mary Chase;)

What you and your kitties do in your own basket is none of my business. (Afterglow; writing credit: Alan Rudolph)

Pushy kids think they can tell me what to do in my house, Why, I tell you these parents these days they don't know how to rear children (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Rudy, what would you do in life if you only had a fourth grade education? (The Cosby Show; writing credit: Bob Shayne)

But whatever you do in your lifetime ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang)

All I wanna do in the middle of the evening is hold you tight (Rosanna; performing artist: Toto)

What do more women do in the bathroom than men? Wash their hands. (Women: 80% - Men: 55%) (references; author: unknown)

Daddy? What Did You Do in the War (1966)

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Books

• I'll Cook When Pigs Fly...and They Do in Cincinnati: And They Do in Cincinnati! ; Bits and Bites of Queen City Cuisine (reference)

• 52 Fun Things to Do in the Car/Cards (1 Deck) (reference)

• Tidewater Virginia With Children: Where to Go and What to Do in Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown, Newport News, and Hampton (reference)

• Makin' Do in Illinois (reference)

• Makin' Do in South Dakota (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (reference)

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Pogo]. First thing us do in this school is teach you kids all about brotherly lov. Credit: Library of Congress.

War workers' nursery. Children of war-working mothers find plenty to do in modern nursery schools. Painting with water colors is popular with young children. Credit: Library of Congress.

The kind of work drought refugees and Mexicans do in the Imperial Valley, California. Planting cantaloupe. Credit: Library of Congress.

What can the blinded man do in the world of commerce and industry. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And if any one in the state of nature may punish another for any evil he has done, every one may do so: for in that state of perfect equality, where naturally there is no superiority or jurisdiction of one over another, what any may do in prosecution of that law, every one must needs have a right to do. (Second Treatise of Government)

Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. (reference)

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His comrades helped him as they always do in that dreary place, and he escaped.

I set up my sail, the wind being fair, with a design to reach the nearest of those islands, which I made a shift to do in about three hours.

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Health

Having identified beta amyloid and tau, researchers would now like to find out what they do in the brain and in Alzheimer's disease. (references)

Although CVS can begin at any age in children and adults, it usually starts between the ages of 3 and 7. In adults, episodes tend to occur less often than they do in children, but they last longer. (references)

More than 90 percent of the people who try to quit smoking relapse or return to smoking within 1 year, with the majority relapsing within a week. There are, however, an estimated 2.5 to 5 percent who do in fact succeed on their own. It has been shown that pharmacological treatments can double the odds of their success. (references)

Business

Still, the advertising industry is highly controlled by the Vietnamese government and experts believe that it will be sometime until other foreign companies will be able to operate in a manner as they do in other countries. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hungary

A group must provide 100 signatures to register as a religion, which it may do in any local court. (references)

Economic History

Chile

There is much to do in this sector. (references)

Romania

Others fear losing the only job they know how to do in an economy with a 10 percent unemployment rate. (references)

Minorities

Morocco

On October 17, the King issued a royal decree creating the Royal Institute for Amazigh (Berber) Culture (IRCAM), as he had promised to do in his July 30 Throne Day speech. (references)

Trade

Canada

With proper application of sound business principles, however, American firms should be able rely on commercial banks as they do in the US domestic market and to avoid most of the problems that require extensive export financing insurance. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "do in": do in an amateurish way ♦ do in rome as the romans do. Additional references.

Albanian

vdes (be dying, burst, croak, decease, depart, die, die away, die down, end, evaporate, expire, give up the ghost, go to glory, go under, go west, necrose, pack up, pass away, pass over, perish, pop off, snuff it, turn up one's toes, wither), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), rraskapit (depauperate, do up, exhaust, overdrive, overstrain oneself, Tucker). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قتل (assassinate, assassination, bag, butcher, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride). (various references)

Bulgarian 

убивам (account for, assassinate, dispose of, end, finish, fix, kill, lay out, liquidate, murder, pip, polish off, pop off, pot, push off, put away, put to death, quench, remove, rub out, shoot up, slay, snuff out, starve, strike down, wipe out, zap), очиствам (break, chastise, clean, cleanse, clear, depurate, deterge, flick, polish off, pop off, purge, purify, push off, remove, rid, rub out, wipe out), пребивам (beat up, spoil), изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, distress, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, fatigue, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste). (various references)

Chinese 

湊合 (bring together, improvise, make do in a bad situation). (various references)

Czech

znièit (annihilate, blast, demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, do for, eat up, expunge, infringe, Mar, overthrow, overturn, ruin, smite, spoil, take out, wreck), oddìlat (bump off, hit). (various references)

Finnish

tekaista (do in haste, fabricate, invent, make hastily, make up). (various references)

French

liquider (do away with). (various references)

German

umlegen (apply, bring down, bump off, change, floor, hit, knock down, put on, put round, re-lay, reorder, screw, split the cost, tilt, transfer, turn down, turn over), killen (bump off, hit, kill, murder), kaltmachen (bump off, waste), erledigen (accomodate, attend, carry out, crank through, deal with, dispatch, end, finish, finish off, get through with, handle, knock out, process, release, ruin, see to, settle, shatter, take care of, terminate, to attend, to deal with, to dispose, to finish, to see to, to take care of, wear out), abmurksen (bump off, scrag). (various references)

Hungarian

beadja a kulcsot (peg out, snuff it, to drop off the hooks, to go west, to hand in one's check, to hop the stick, to hop the twig, to kick the bucket, to lay down one's knife and fork, to pass in one's check, to shuffle off). (various references)

Indonesian

mengatasnamakan (act on behalf of, do in the name). (various references)

Italian

rovinare (be ruined, blast, blight, break, collapse, crash, damn, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disfigure, kill, nip, pull down, put pay, ruin, scuttle, shatter, spoil, undo, waste, wreck). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

地で行く (to carryinto actual practice, to do for real, to do in real life), 地でいく (to carryinto actual practice, to do for real, to do in real life), 地でゆく (to carryinto actual practice, to do for real, to do in real life), 成り代わる (to do in place of or on behalf of). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なりかわる (to become, to change, to change into, to do in place of or on behalf of), じでいく (to carryinto actual practice, to do for real, to do in real life), じでゆく (to carryinto actual practice, to do for real, to do in real life). (various references)

Pig Latin

oday inay

Portuguese

matar (bump off, butcher, close out, despatch, destroy, dispatch, kill, liquidate, murder, quench, rub out, shoot, slaughter, slay), extenuar (extenuate, overdrive, tire), esgotar (consume, deplete, dry, empty, exhaust, expend, fatigue, fork, impoverish, outwear, overdrive, overstrain, pump up, rack, run out of, sap, spend, tire, use up, wear out, weary, work out), acabar com (put an end to, sever). (various references)

Romanian

omorî (annihilate, assassinate, bring down, bump, butcher, croak, destroy, dispatch, do for, execute, exhaust, finish, kill, knock off, make an end of, make away with, murder, put smb. on the spot, put to death, send to glory, shift, slaughter, slay, spoil, torment, torture). (various references)

Russian 

уничтожить (obliterate), убивать (assassinate, assassinating, do to death, kill, liquidate, murder, put death, slain, slay, smite). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dokusuriti. (various references)

Spanish

matar (butcher, carry off, cut down, destroy, dispose of, homicide, kill, knock off, lay, liquidate, murder, postmark, pot, shoot, slaughter, slay, swat), cargarse a alguien. (various references)

Swedish

fixa (fix up, nobble, set up). (various references)

Turkish

dolandırmak (bilk, bunco, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do down, double cross, flimflam, gammon, gold brick, gull, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, Nick, nobble, racketeer, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, spoof, swindle, take in), yormak (attribute, cream, do up, exhaust, fag, fag out, fatigue, frazzle, knock out, poop, prostrate, strain, take out, task, tax, tire, try, Tucker, tucker out, wear out, wearisome, weary), gebertmek (kill, zap), öldürmek (assassinate, bump off, carry off, croak, cut down, destroy, dispatch, do away with, do one's job for one, drop, erase, exterminate, get, get rid of, give smb. his quietus, ice, kill, kill off, knock off, knock out, liquidate, make away with, murder, off, put away, put down, put to death, rub out, send to glory, shoot, shoot dead, slay, take off, take smb.'s life, waste, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Ukrainian

обдурити (best, diddle, head off, nobble). (various references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nodi.

-1 letter: din, don, ion, nod.

-2 letters: do, id, in, no, od, on.

+1 letter: danio, dingo, doing, indol, indow, iodin, poind, tondi.

+2 letters: adjoin, adonis, anodic, boding, bodkin, codein, coding, codlin, coined, conoid, daikon, daimon, danios, dinero, dioxan, dioxin, disown, diuron, dobbin, doings, doling, domain, domine, doming, domino, donsie, doping, dormin, dosing, doting, dowing, dozing, durion, emodin, foined, ganoid, guidon, hoddin, hoiden, honied, indigo, indole, indols, indoor, indows, infold, inroad, iodine, iodins, ironed, joined, ladino, monied, nevoid, nimrod, noised, nordic, oinked, onside, opined, ordain, poinds, pongid, ponied, unipod, window.