Word Finder - dost

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(auxiliary) A syntactic marker.

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To perform; to execute.

example

All you ever do is surf the Internet. What will you do this afternoon?

synonyms

• accomplish
• carry out
• functionate

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To cause, make (someone) (do something).

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To suffice.

example

it’s not the best broom, but it will have to do;  this will do me, thanks.

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To be reasonable or acceptable.

example

It simply will not do to have dozens of children running around such a quiet event.

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(ditransitive) To have (as an effect).

example

The fresh air did him some good.

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To fare, perform (well or poorly).

example

Our relationship isn't doing very well;  how do you do?

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(chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.

example

What does Bob do? — He's a plumber.

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To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).

example

"Don't forget to do your report" means something quite different depending on whether you're a student or a programmer.

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To cook.

example

I'll just do some eggs.

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To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.

example

Let’s do New York also.

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To treat in a certain way.

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To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.

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To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.

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To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)

example

I did five years for armed robbery.

synonyms

• serve

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To impersonate or depict.

example

They really laughed when he did Clinton, with a perfect accent and a leer.

synonyms

• imitate
• personate
• take off

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(with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.

example

He did a Henry VIII and got married six times.

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To kill.

synonyms

• do in
• murder
• off
• rub out

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To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.

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To punish for a misdemeanor.

example

He got done for speeding.

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To have sex with. (See also do it)

synonyms

• go to bed with
• sleep with

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To cheat or swindle.

example

That guy just did me out of two hundred bucks!

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• defraud
• diddle
• mug off
• rip off
• scam

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To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.

example

the novel has just been done into English;  I'm going to do this play into a movie

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To finish.

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To work as a domestic servant (with for).

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• attend
• serve
• wait on

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(auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.

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To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.

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(ditransitive) To make or provide.

example

Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?

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• furnish
• give
• supply

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To injure (one's own body part).

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To take drugs.

example

I do cocaine.

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(in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.

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What's that car doing in our swimming pool?

Oh, man, how dost thou forget and obstruct thy brother man, and say, "Give us this day our daily bread," when he has none!

His great ambition was to recover Peshawar from the Sikhs; and when Captain Alexander Burnes arrived on a mission from Lord Auckland, with the ostensible object of opening trade, the Dost was willing to promise everything, if only he could get Peshawar.

While Dost Mahommed held Kabul, Kandahar became temporarily a sort of independent chiefship under two or three of his brothers.

Dost Mahommed was defeated near Kabul, and after surrender to the British force, was deported into Hindustan.

Though he disapproved of Lord Auckland's policy of substituting Shah Shuja for Dost Mahomed, he loyally supported the British in their advance on Afghanistan.

Dennie with a small force routed Dost Mahommed Khan, accompanied by a number of Uzbeg chiefs.

Any one has the right to appeal to the amir for trial, and the great amirs, Dost Mahommed and Abdur Rahman, were accessible at all times to the petitions of their subjects.

The rest of the country was divided among the Barakzais - Dost Mahommed, the ablest, getting Kabul.

Dost Mahommed, finding his troops deserting, passed the Hindu Kush, and Shah Shuja entered the capital (August 7).

Dost Mahommed surrendered (November 3, 1840) and was sent to India, where he was honourably treated.

Dost Mahommed now became the British ally, but on his death in 1863 the kingdom fell back into civil war, until his son, Shere Ali, had won his way to undisputed rulership in 1868.

Abdur Rahman, the son of the late amir Shere Ali's elder brother, had fought against Shere Ali in the war for succession to Dost Mahommed, had been driven beyond the Oxus, and had lived for ten years in exile with the Russians.

In 1837, when the curtain rises upon the drama of British interference in Afghanistan, the usurper, Dost Mahommed Barakzai, was firmly established at Kabul.

The latter was unable to satisfy the demands of Dost Mahommed in the matter of Peshawar, and returned to India unsuccessful.

Macnaghten was treacherously murdered at an interview with the Afghan chief, Akbar Khan, eldest son of Dost Mahommed.

The great bazar at Kabul was blown up with gunpowder to fix a stigma upon the city; the prisoners were recovered; and all marched back to India, leaving Dost Mahommed to take undisputed possession of his throne.

Multan had previously fallen; and the Afghan horse under Dost Mahommed, who had forgotten their hereditary antipathy to the Sikhs in their greater hatred of the British name, were chased back with ignominy to their native hills.

Thee all this universe, as it rolls circling round the earth, obeys wheresoever thou dost guide, and gladly owns thy sway.

Action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act thou dost nothing.

Through thine intercessions thou dost destroy the snares of our enemies.

This is what Thou thyself dost wish in union with Me.

Out on thee Villaine, wherefore dost thou mad mee?

How doest thou pitty him whom y dost troble, I had rather be alone Alc.

For having traffic with thyself alone, Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.

Why dost start, Draw back, and look so pale?

Abdur Rahman Khan, the eldest male representative of the stock of Dost Mahommed, was then recognized as amir of Kabul.

Distrusting the attitude of the Amir Dost Mahommed towards Russia, Lord Auckland in 1839 attempted to restore Shah Shuja to the throne against the wishes of the Afghan people.

He left this retreat on the 5th of April 1842, and was immediately killed by the adherents of Dost Mahommed and his son Akbar Khan.

About this time Kohan Dil Khan, one of the chiefs of Kandahar, died, and Dost Mahommed of Kabul annexed the city to his territory.

Of these Dost Mahommed received for his share Ghazni, to which in 1826 he added Kabul, the richest of the Afghan provinces.

He was defeated by Dost Mahommed under the walls of Kandahar, but Ranjit Singh seized.

Dost Mahommed was enjoined to abandon the attempt to recover Peshawar, and to place his foreign policy under British guidance.

Shah Shuja was proclaimed amir, and entered Kabul on the 7th of August, while Dost Mahommed sought refuge in the wilds of the Hindu Kush.

Closely followed by the British, Dost was driven to extremities, and on the 4th of November 1840 surrendered as a prisoner.

On his return from Hindustan Dost Mahommed was received in triumph at Kabul, and set himself to re-establish his authority on a firm basis.

On the 30th of March 1855 Dost Mahommed reversed his former policy by concluding an offensive and defensive alliance with the British government.

During the Indian Mutiny Dost Mahommed punctiliously refrained from assisting the insurgents.

Ethnically and historically Afghan Turkestan is more connected with Bokhara than with Kabul, of which government it has been a dependency only since the time of Dost Mahommed.

At the beginning of the 19th century they belonged to Bokhara; but under the great amir Dost Mahommed the Afghans recovered Balkh and Tashkurgan in 1850, Akcha and the four western khanates in 1855, and Kunduz in 1859.

Rejoice, Thou Who in thy care dost forsake none!

If thou dost glory in thy God, and dost glory in thy God, and dost verily believe the promise that is made, command that these stones be bread.

Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.

Why else dost thou think I have caused a flood to descend upon the earth?

Thou art the Absolute, and Thou dost manifest thyself as the Relative.

Out of the clay of love I molded thee, how dost thou busy thyself with another?

And then take heed what thou dost account thyself.

Kandahar surrendered, Ghazni was taken by storm, Dost Mahommed fled across the Hindu Kush, and Shah Shuja was triumphantly led into the Bala Hissar at Kabul in August 1839.

Thou art the Absolute, and Thou dost manifest Thyself as the Relative.

Bhopal state was founded in 1723 by Dost Mahommed Khan, an Afghan adventurer.

It is held indeed in high veneration by all classes, and the famous Dost Mahommed Khan is himself buried at the foot of the tomb of the saint.