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DO IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
Example:
the double agent was neutralized
Synonyms:
do in; knock off; liquidate; neutralise; neutralize; waste
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "do in" is one way to...):
kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to do in the prisoners
Context examples:
Adopted fraternity will not do in this case.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mrs. Allen did all that she could do in such a case by saying very placidly, every now and then, “I wish you could dance, my dear—I wish you could get a partner.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
What would you advise me to do in such a case, Miss Dashwood?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
During the time necessary for preparation, Laurie bore himself as young gentleman usually do in such cases.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“I have almost forgotten that there is anything to do in the world but to go out tossing on the sea here. I wish there was not.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As such, packets of charge don’t move nearly as fast as they do in semiconductors like silicon or gallium arsenide, both of which have a highly ordered crystalline structure.
(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)
The tissue chips allowed the researchers to grow neurons and blood vessels together, which was impossible to do in petri dishes.
(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)
By my soul! as long as I am seneschal of Aquitaine I will find enough to do in guarding the marches which you have entrusted to me.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is now up to politicians to take a decision based on the expertise and to impose a precautionary principle, which is what I tried to do in my report, or at least a principle of reason.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
Mercury may draw you back to a former business partner or agent to work together on a project you wanted to do in the past but, for some reason, had been shelved for a later time.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
