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do out

do out verb: to decorate, tidy, or clean (a place).

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial, transitive) To decorate, tidy, or clean (a place).
    • After two days' absence, with the easy casuistry of her circumstances, the lady had decided that he was not returning and had proceeded to "do out" the room for the next tenant.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

Forms of do out

third-person singular presentdoes out
present participledoing out
pastdid out
past participledone out

Questions about do out

What does do out mean?
Do out means to decorate, tidy, or clean (a place).
What part of speech is do out?
Do out is a verb.
What is the past tense of do out?
The past tense of do out is did out.

Words near do out in the dictionary

  1. do one's thing
  2. do one's utmost
  3. do one's worst
  4. do oneself a mischief
  5. do or die
  6. do out
  7. do out of
  8. do over
  9. do porridge
  10. do right by
  11. do somebody wrong

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