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do for
verb does for · doing for · did for · done for
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, for. What can I do for you?
- To doom; to bring about the demise of someone; to injure or harm someone. Smoking did for him in the end.
- To prosecute someone for a criminal offence. He was done for murder.
- To work as a domestic servant for. I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.
- To tire; to exhaust. All this running has done for me.
