DO IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does do in mean? 

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

1. get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DO IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

do in; knock off; liquidate; neutralise; neutralize; waste

Context example:

the double agent was neutralized

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

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to do in the prisoners

 Context examples 

No more would he conjugate the verb to do in every mood and tense.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, easy-going way.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I do in any case, and shall tell you if you are right. Speak, without fear!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This last, after some time, I ventured to do in my master’s presence.

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

The study shows that gastruloids organise themselves with regard to the three main body axes, as they do in embryos, and follow similar patterns of gene expression.

(Scientists develop mouse ‘embryo-like structures’ with organisation along body’s major axes, University of Cambridge)

By displaying the different velocities we can cut this cosmic bubble into virtual slices just as we do in computer tomography of a human body.

(Ageing Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble, ESO)

At other times he worked in the garden, but as there was little to do in the frosty season, he read to the old man and Agatha.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

According to the new study, ultrahot Jupiters do in fact possess the ingredients for water (hydrogen and oxygen atoms).

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

Then, one day, as they were sitting before the house under a very high tree, the father said, “I should like to try what each of you can do in this way.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He thinks Mrs Clay afraid of him, aware that he sees through her, and not daring to proceed as she might do in his absence.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)