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does someone proud

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

Meaning of do someone proud

Verb

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

  1. (informal, transitive) To cause someone to feel pride, admiration, or satisfaction.
    • He very politely assured her that she would ‘do him proud’, whenever she might please to call at Hook Court.1867, Anthony Trollope, chapter 75, in The Last Chronicle of Barset
  2. (dated, transitive) To treat someone extremely well; to honor with a generous contribution.
    • Fortune did them proud, for by the time they got to Wilmington, gold had risen to such heights in Confederate currency that their salaries dwarfed those paid to Southerners doing the same work.1994, Frank E. Vandiver, Ploughshares Into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance

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Does someone proud is the third-person singular simple present indicative of do someone proud.

Words near does someone proud in the dictionary

  1. does someone a frighten
  2. does someone brown
  3. does someone like that
  4. does someone look like
  5. does someone one better
  6. does someone proud
  7. does someone's bidding
  8. does someone's business
  9. does someone's head in
  10. does someone's heart good
  11. does the bear shit in the woods

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