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32%4 Word used by literary greats
verb

• (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.

• To perform; to execute.

• To cause, make (someone) (do something).

• To suffice.

• To be reasonable or acceptable.

• (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).

• To fare, perform (well or poorly).

• (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.

• To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).

• To cook.

• To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.

• To treat in a certain way.

• To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.

• To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.

• To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)

• To impersonate or depict.

• (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.

• To kill.

• To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.

• To punish for a misdemeanor.

• To have sex with. (See also do it)

• To cheat or swindle.

• To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.

• To finish.

• To work as a domestic servant (with for).

• (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.

• To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.

• (ditransitive) To make or provide.

• To injure (one's own body part).

• To take drugs.

• (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.

32%10 Tributes to literary greats in a writers' hall of fame
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