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doing by

doing by is the present participle and gerund of do by.

Meaning of do by

Verb

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

  1. (informal, usually) To perform on behalf of someone or with someone in mind; to behave in a manner befitting someone.
    • I've tried hard to do right by him. Even so, he continues to do badly by me.

Questions about doing by

What is doing by the present participle and gerund of?
Doing by is the present participle and gerund of do by.

Words near doing by in the dictionary

  1. doing away with
  2. doing battle
  3. doing bird
  4. doing bits
  5. doing business
  6. doing by
  7. doing by half-measures
  8. doing by halves
  9. doing cartwheels
  10. doing cheetah flips
  11. doing credit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doing by (page history and authors); do by (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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