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/dən fɔr/ Listen

verb

Done v. P. p. from Do, and formerly the infinitive.

Performed; executed; finished.

It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; used elliptically.

Done brown, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. (Colloq.)

Done for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. (Colloq.)

Done up.

(a)

Wrapped up.

(b)

Worn out; exhausted. (Colloq.)

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"Done for" Quotes from Famous Books

... truth of it. Mr M——, who, you know, stood between me and the peerage, has been drowned in the Rhone; I now have a squeak for it. His wife has one daughter, and is enceinte. Should the child prove a boy, I am done for, but if a girl, I must then come in to the barony, and fifteen thousand pounds per annum. However, I've hedged ...

— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat

... was done for, Mr. Henderson," he said, when the giant returned flushed with his exertions. "You are equal to ...

— The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus • Horatio Alger Jr.

... remained at home she must have married some poor man who might or might not have treated her well, and for whom she would have to work like a slave. Now she is nominally a slave with nothing to do and with every comfort, in addition to what she has done for her family." ...

— Court Life in China • Isaac Taylor Headland

... and—on terms so far too easy—carried away for ever; and not too young, at all events, to have been present, now and then, when her candid elders, enlightened too late as to what their sacrifice might really have done for them, looked at each other with the pale hush of the irreparable. We let ourselves note that these were matters to put a great deal of old, old history into sweet ...

— Italian Hours • Henry James

... troops were in categories IV and V as against 41 percent of the troops in the 35th Infantry and 46 percent in the 27th, the 25th Division's white regiments. The Gillem Board had recommended supplying all such units with 25 percent more officers in the company grades, something not done for the 24th Infantry. Some observers also reported evidence in the regiment of the lack of leadership and lack of close relationships between officers and men; absence of unit esprit de corps; discrimination against black officers; and poor ...

— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

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