DOING IN Synonyms: 289 Similar and Opposite Words

doing in

verb

present participle of do in

as in destroying

to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of a business venture that was done in by poor planning

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as in killing

to deprive of life the early frost did in all of our tender plants

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as in murdering

to put to death deliberately somebody did the old man in late last night

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as in wearing

to use up all the physical energy of the long day of hard work really did me in

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as in cheating

to rob by the use of trickery or threats too savvy an investor to be done in by preposterous claims of astronomical returns

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Recent Examples of doing in Basically, what Thiel’s doing in his Antichrist speeches is portraying our current predicament as an existential battle between good and evil. — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026 Great leaders learn to recognize what a person may be capable of doing in the future. — Hao Lam, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 This is so different from what everybody else is doing in protein. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026 Aviation accidents also pose a risk to people on the ground, especially in formation maneuvers like those the Apache pilots were doing in South Carolina. — Brynn Tannehill, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026 Daeron has not yet appeared in House of the Dragon but is mentioned in the second season’s sixth episode when Alicent asks her brother Gwayne (Freddie Fox) how Daeron is doing in Oldtown. — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026 Instead of independently designing and optimizing individual components and then connecting and calibrating them, GM can now simultaneously balance airflow and refrigerant behavior with cabin comfort, doing in days or hours what used to take months or weeks. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026 What Dobeš is doing in these playoffs has put him in that group. — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 25 May 2026 So there is a risk assessment that folks are doing in real time. — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 13 Apr. 2026

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After destroying much of Gaza and killing tens of thousands of Palestinians, Israel has regained military control of nearly 70 percent of the strip.

— Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2026
But if firms lean on AI to cut lower-level work, the risk is destroying the very avenue of apprenticeship that produces future senior associates and managers.

— Tim Brackney, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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Earlier this week, missiles fired by the Houthis struck a residential area in Taiz, killing two teenage girls and renewing attention on the dangers faced by civilians.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Russia's aerial attacks hit 12 regions of Ukraine overnight, killing at least four people and wounding scores of others, including five children, Zelenskyy said on social media Thursday.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of killing

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With all respect to West’s previous cheating-on-television canon, War might be his finest adulterous work.

— Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 24 Oct. 2026
Wood was vindicated three years later, when a league investigation revealed the Astros had been cheating in 2017, stealing signs from a television monitor next to the dugout and relaying them to batters by banging on trash cans.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

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The song is a cautionary tale about a brothel in New Orleans known for ruining many poor girls.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
As wet electrodes get thicker, the liquid binder migrates unevenly during drying, ruining the battery‘s structure.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of ruining

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Zeus acting for his own pleasure underlies the evolutionary tales of small groups raiding foreign shores, carrying off women.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
Before the night was out, Germans began chipping away at the barrier, carrying off chunks of one of the symbols of the diminishing Iron Curtain.

— Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 9 Nov. 2025

Definition of carrying off

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Washington hoped that assassinating Khamenei would prompt a mass antigovernment uprising.

— Narges Bajoghli, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2026
Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, will stand trial after a Utah judge ruled Tuesday that prosecutors presented enough evidence to move forward on all seven charges against him.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026

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