Doer
['duːə] or ['dʊɚ]
Definition
(v. t. & i.) One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
(v. t. & i.) An agent or attorney; a factor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Actor, operator, performer, agent, executor.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Agent, actor, performer, originator, perpetrator, maker
ANT:Undoer, preventer, hinderer, baffler, neutralizes_marrer
Editor: Rae
Definition
n. one who does anything; one who habitually performs: an agent.
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Examples
- For, Evil often stops short at itself and dies with the doer of it; but Good, never. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was humbly done, but picturesquely, and was not abasing to the doer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They formed my character, and filled me with an abhorrence of evil-doers. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But the world is not to be mended by merely regarding evil-doers with an expression of rather undiscriminating disapproval. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The frightful deeds that were to be soon done, were probably unimagined at that time in the brains of the doers. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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