did well

Verb

do well (third-person singular simple present does well, present participle doing well, simple past did well, past participle done well)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, well.
   • He tries hard to tell a good joke but, alas, he does not do it well.
2. (with infinitive) To take the prudent approach; to be advised.
   • He would do well to listen more carefully to his wife.
3. To benefit, to favour.
   • The company did well by his family after he died.
4. To succeed; to flourish.
   • Prosimians make good use of shelves, ropes, or swings and do well with natural substrates—such as vines, bamboo, and branches—to climb on or jump among.1998, National Research Council, Commission on Life Sciences, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, The Psychological Well-Being of Nonhuman Primates, →ISBN, page 58