do in
verb- To kill or end; to defeat. · By the eighth mile, I was sure that finishing the 10-mile hike would do me in.· We very nearly did in an entire keg of beer that weekend.
- To exhaust, to tire out. · I’m off to bed. I’m completely done in.· I'm exhausted! That 20-mile hike has done me in.
- To damage or injure. · I’m off work at the moment; I’ve done my back in.
- To rob (someone); to steal or pilfer from (someone).
- To eat. · I can do in a dozen eggs.
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There was no more to do in the room, so the poisoner retired stealthily, as though fearing to hear the sound of her own footsteps; but as she withdrew she still held aside the curtain, absorbed in the irresistible attraction always exerted by the picture of death, so long as it is merely mysterious and does not excite disgust.
Not knowing what else to do in so wild a region, the Muleteer placed upon the Mule the load carried by the Ass in addition to his own, and at the top of all placed the hide of the Ass, after he had skinned him.
The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm.
An old sly Fox, seeing this, said, “May I never make myself so ridiculous as you do in your pride and self-conceit; for even though you have the size of a lion among wolves, in a herd of lions you are definitely a wolf.”
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