DO BY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does do by mean? 

• DO BY (verb)
  The verb DO BY has 1 sense:

1. interact in a certain way

  Familiarity information: DO BY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DO BY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Interact in a certain way

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

do by; handle; treat

Context example:

Handle the press reporters gently

Hypernyms (to "do by" is one way to...):

interact (act together or towards others or with others)

Verb group:

treat (regard or consider in a specific way)

address; cover; deal; handle; plow; treat (act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "do by"):

bemock; mock (treat with contempt)

cut; disregard; ignore; snub (refuse to acknowledge)

wrong (treat unjustly; do wrong to)

handle with kid gloves (handle with great care and sensitivity)

criminalize (treat as a criminal)

nurse (treat carefully)

strong-arm (handle roughly)

ride roughshod; run roughshod (treat inconsiderately or harshly)

upstage (treat snobbishly, put in one's place)

rough-house (treat in a rough or boisterous manner)

brutalise; brutalize (treat brutally)

do well by (treat with respect and consideration)

gloss over; skate over; skimp over; slur over; smooth over (treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly)

abuse; ill-treat; ill-use; maltreat; mistreat; step (treat badly)

baby; cocker; coddle; cosset; featherbed; indulge; mollycoddle; pamper; spoil (treat with excessive indulgence)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

This I was able to do by securing the position of governess in his family.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They spend the greatest part of their lives in observing the celestial bodies, which they do by the assistance of glasses, far excelling ours in goodness.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You don't know what you do by keeping me here.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He will not do by the side of your cousin Edmund.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

If he would only have done as well by himself, said John Dashwood, as all his friends were disposed to do by him, he might now have been in his proper situation, and would have wanted for nothing.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

My master was eager to learn whence I came; how I acquired those appearances of reason, which I discovered in all my actions; and to know my story from my own mouth, which he hoped he should soon do by the great proficiency I made in learning and pronouncing their words and sentences.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)