Verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, for.
(transitive, Britain) To doom; to bring about the demise of someone.
Smoking did for him in the end.
She's done for!
(UK, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant for.
Synonyms: attend, serve, wait on, see also Thesaurus:serve
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. Jane Austen
Whatever you may do for your brother, being hungry, and a stranger, and naked, not even the devil will be able to despoil, but it will be laid up in an inviolabe treasure. John Chrysostom
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
Muddy water won't do for a mirror. Italian Proverb
Ask not what your profits can do for you, but what you can do for your profits. Klingon Proverb
As you do for your ancestors, your children will do for you. African Proverb