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doing

verbnouninterjectiontop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • //ˈduːɪŋ//
  • //ˈdiːɪn//
  • //dɔɪŋ//

A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of dopresent participle and gerund of do

Etymology

See do.

noun

  1. 1

    A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.

    This is his doing. (= "He did it.")

    Draining that swamp is going to take some doing!

    Mr. Dawe further calls his voyage “A Record of some Strange Doings at Sea.” They are strange doings, in fact, and yet not as novel as might be expected. They involve mutiny, piracy, shipwreck, and fights with Savages […]

interjection

  1. 1

    The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Forms

plural
doings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).