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do over

UK/ˈduːˌəʊvə(ɹ)//ˈduˌoʊvɚ/

do over verb: to cover with; to smear or spread on to.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To cover with; to smear or spread on to.
    • [H]e ſeem'd amaz'd at the Sight of our Bark, having never ſeen any thing of that Kind before, for their Boats are moſt wretched Things, ſuch as I never ſaw before, having no Head or Stern, and being made only of the Skins of Goats, ſewed together with dried Guts of Goats and Sheep and done over...1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC...
  2. (UK, slang, transitive) To beat up.
    • If someone tries to do my guitar, and I don't want it to be done, it's between him and me. I don't call in Bill Wyman to come in and do him over for me, with one of his vicious ankle-twisters or Chinese burns.1971 August 19, Robert Greenfield, quoting Keith Richards, “The Rolling Stone Interview: Keith Richard[s]”, in Rolling Stone, number 89, San Francisco, Calif.: Rolling Stone, →ISSN, →OCLC...
    • I go to a match for one reason only: the aggro. […] [E]very night during the week we go round looking respectable … then if we see someone who looks like the enemy we ask him the time; if he answers in a foreign accent, we do him over; and if he's got any money on him we'll roll him as well.1974, Paul Harrison, “Soccer’s Tribal Wars”, in New Society: The Social Science Weekly, London: Harrison Raison & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 604; republished as Patrick Murphy, John Williams, Eric...
  3. (US, transitive) To repeat; to start over.
  4. (slang, transitive) To rob (someone or a place).
    • Our house got done over last night.

do over meaning in Tamil

do over in Tamil

மீண்டும் முதலிலிருந்து தொடங்கு

Forms of do over

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

Words formed from do over

Questions about do over

What does do over mean?
Do over means to cover with; to smear or spread on to.
What is do over in Tamil?
Do over in Tamil is மீண்டும் முதலிலிருந்து தொடங்கு. See Do over meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is do over?
Do over is a verb.
How do you pronounce do over?
Do over is pronounced /ˈduːˌəʊvə(ɹ)/ (UK).
What is the past tense of do over?
The past tense of do over is did over.

Words near do over in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: do over (page history and authors); do over (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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