DO GOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does do good mean? 

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

1. be beneficial for

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DO GOOD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be beneficial for

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

benefit; do good

Context example:

This will do you good

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

aid; help (improve the condition of)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

do-gooder (someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms)

 Context examples 

“Emma never thinks of herself, if she can do good to others,” rejoined Mr. Woodhouse, understanding but in part.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

For I wouldn't be idle, but do good, and make everyone love me dearly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Well, said the shepherd, if you are so fond of her, I will change my cow for your horse; I like to do good to my neighbours, even though I lose by it myself.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

That was when I began to do good work, when I wrote 'Adventure,' 'Joy,' 'The Pot,' 'The Wine of Life,' 'The Jostling Street,' the 'Love-cycle,' and the 'Sea Lyrics.'

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Anne smiled more than once to herself during this speech, and entered into the subject, as ready to do good by entering into the feelings of a young lady as of a young man, though here it was good of a lower standard, for what could be offered but general acquiescence?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)