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dost

American  
[duhst] / dʌst /
Also doest

verb

Archaic.
  1. second person singular present indicative of do.


dost British  
/ dʌst /

verb

  1. archaic a singular form of the present tense (indicative mood) of do 1

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What about when Titus’s brother retorts, sensibly: “Why dost thou laugh? It fits not with this hour.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2023

Duke of Gloucester in "Henry VI, Part I": Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020

POLONIUS: If thou dost insist upon thy wretched vision then let me invest your time; be true to thy work and speak to me through the reason of the null and alternate hypotheses.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020

Banquo gazes at his betrayer not with zombielike menace but with quiet reproach, belying Macbeth’s subsequent claim that “thou hast no speculation in those eyes/ Which thou dost glare with.”

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015

O God of Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me?

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

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