do for

Verb

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

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, for.
   • What can I do for you?
2. (UK, transitive) To doom; to bring about the demise of someone; to injure or harm someone.
   • Smoking did for him in the end.
   • She's done for!

   Synonyms:

   damage, wound, abuse, annoy, bewound, damnify, dere, do damage to, do ill, do violence to

3. (UK, transitive) To prosecute someone for a criminal offence.
   • He was done for murder.
   • The police did him for conspiracy to commit burglary.
4. (UK, dated, intransitive) 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.1915, Frank Thomas Bullen, Recollections

   Synonyms:

   attend, serve, wait on, aid, attend to, await, bestand, bestead, dance attendance, do

5. (slang) To tire; to exhaust.
   • All this running has done for me.

   Synonyms:

   fordo, weary, beleaguer, exhaust, fatigue, gas out, get down, jade, knock up, poop