EnglishMerriam-Webster Dictionary
5 to meet one's day-to-day needs //I'm doing just fine 6 to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind) //this neighborhood cleanup effort might just do some good begetting, breeding, bringing, bringing about, bringing on, catalyzing, causing, creating, drawing on, effecting, effectuating, engendering, generating, inducing, invoking, making, occasioning, producing, prompting, resulting (in), spawning, translating (into), working, yielding beginning, establishing, fathering, founding, inaugurating, initiating, innovating, instituting, introducing, launching, pioneering, setting, setting up, starting clamping down (on), cracking down (on), crushing, dampening, putting down, quashing, quelling, repressing, smothering, squashing, squelching, stifling, subduing, suppressing 7 to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of //the laughing partygoers begged their host to do Marlon Brando again 8 to move forward along a course //how are you doing with the house restoration?