do over en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (General-American) audio
- /ˈduˌoʊvɚ/ (General-American)
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈduːˌəʊvə(ɹ)/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Meanings
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(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 with a kind of ſlimy Stuff like Roſin and Oil, but of a moſt nauſeous, odious Smell, […]
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, page 78:
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(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; republished in Cindy Ehrlich, editor, The Rolling Stones, [San Francisco, Calif.]: Straight Arrow Publishers, 1975, →OCLC, page 57, column 2:I go to a match for one reason only: the aggro. […] [E]very night during the week we go round looking respectable … then if we see someone who looks like the enemy we ask him the time; if he answers in a foreign accent, we do him over; and if he's got any money on him we'll roll him as well.
1974, Paul Harrison, “Soccer’s Tribal Wars”, in New Society: The Social Science Weekly, London: Harrison Raison & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 604; republished as Patrick Murphy, John Williams, Eric Dunning, Football on Trial: Spectator Violence and Development in the Football World, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 1990, →ISBN, page 86:
- (US, transitive) To repeat; to start over.
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(slang, transitive) To rob (someone or a place).
Our house got done over last night.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| does over | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| doing over | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| done over | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| did over | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
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Translations (5)
pl ozdabiać (to cover with; to smear or spread on to) · pl udekorować (to cover with; to smear or spread on to) · pl dekorować (to cover with; to smear or spread on to) · lv pārkrāsot (to cover with; to smear or spread on to) · pl ozdobić (to cover with; to smear or spread on to)