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do by half-measures en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of do by halves.
    • Geert Groote, founder of the Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life, was an enormously appealing, highly idiosyncratic figure of tremendous energy and talent – a man who did nothing, ever, by half measures. 1996, Eknath Easwaran, Seeing with the Eyes of Love:
    • And therefore it was especially his disdain for mediocrity and for doing things by half measures that made him expect something from the Party, which had promised to do something decisive and to contradict communism effectively. 2019, Graeme Nicholson, Heidegger on Truth: Its Essence and Its Fate, page 84:
    • Brigham Young never did anything by half measures. 2013, Ed Breslin, Brigham Young: A Concise Biography of the Mormon Moses, page 31:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
done by half-measures Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
doing by half-measures Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
did by half-measures Tense=Past lexicographic
does by half-measures Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic