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does over

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

Meaning of do over

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...
  3. (US, transitive) To repeat; to start over.
  4. (slang, transitive) To rob (someone or a place).
    • Our house got done over last night.

Questions about does over

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

Words near does over in the dictionary

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

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