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doing over

doing over is the present participle and gerund 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 doing over

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

Words near doing over in the dictionary

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

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