Word.ws English Dictionary

does out

does out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of do out.

Meaning of do out

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

Questions about does out

What is does out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Does out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of do out.

Words near does out in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: does out (page history and authors); do out (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “does out.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/does_out. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.