do forとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

do for (third-person singular simple present does for, present participle doing for, simple past did for, past participle done for)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do,‎ for.

   What can I do for you?

2. (transitive, British) To doom; to bring about the demise of someone; to injure or harm someone.

   Synonyms: damage, wound; see also Thesaurus:harm, Thesaurus:kill

   Smoking did for him in the end.

   She's done for!

   • 1918, Siegfried Sassoon, “The General”, in Counter-Attack and Other Poems:

     "He's a cheery old card," muttered Harry to Jack / As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. / *⁠ * * * * / But he did for them both by his plan of attack.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 604:

     —That bitch, that English whore, did for him, the shebeen proprietor commented. She put the first nail in his coffin.

3. (transitive, British) To prosecute someone for a criminal offence.

   He was done for murder.

   The police did him for conspiracy to commit burglary.

4. (UK, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant for.

   Synonyms: attend, serve, wait on; see also Thesaurus:serve

   • 1915, Frank Thomas Bullen, Recollections:

     I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.

5. (slang) To tire; to exhaust.

   Synonyms: fordo, weary; see also Thesaurus:tire

   All this running has done for me.