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doen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • antic noun A piece of foolish, playful or attention-seeking behaviour; usually used in the plural.
  • do verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
  • harrow noun A heavy farming tool with rows of spikes or discs, dragged over ploughed soil to break it up.
  • make verb To create, produce, or build something.
  • put verb To move something into a particular place or position.
  • sag verb To sink or bend downward in the middle from weight or pressure.

Senses

doen is used for these senses in English:

  • antic (intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
  • do (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
  • do (ambitransitive) To suffice.
  • do (transitive) To cook.
  • do (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
  • harrow (transitive) To traumatize or disturb; to torment, distress or vex.
  • make (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.
  • put To physically place (something or someone somewhere).

antic — full definition

  1. noun A piece of foolish, playful or attention-seeking behaviour; usually used in the plural.
  2. adjective Grotesque or absurd in an oddly theatrical way.

do — full definition

  1. verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
  2. verb Used as a helping verb to form questions and negatives, or for emphasis.
  3. verb To be sufficient or acceptable.
  4. verb To fare or get on in a particular way.
  5. noun A social event or party (informal, chiefly British).

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