do to
Affect in some way
Do to means to perform an action upon someone or something, often with implications of impact or effect.
It appears most frequently in questions and statements about treatment or consequences: What did they do to the car?
Look what the wind did to my hair.
The phrase carries a sense that the subject has been affected, changed, or acted upon in some notable way, whether positive or negative.
- performExecute or present
- completeLacking nothing, fully done
- conductManner of behaving
- executeCarry out fully
- accomplishComplete successfully
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