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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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Etymology of 'Done for'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Done for" Quotes from Famous Books

... by a direct transition I am got to the Oration. My friend! you know not what you have done for me there. It was long decades of years that I had heard nothing but the infinite jangling and jabbering, and inarticulate twittering and screeching, and my soul had sunk down sorrowful, and said ...

— The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, - 1834-1872, Vol. I • Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson

... standing with Gerald, looking at what they had planned together; there was a soothing sense of reality about that visit, after the morning's happening, with its disappointment, its reminder of immorality and discontent, and of folk ungrateful for what was done for their good. And, squeezing ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... she said. "Only watch to see what he may seem to want to have done for him. Sit quietly by, and don't get in ...

— The Stokesley Secret • Charlotte M. Yonge

... at that season earnestly debated by the enemy whether or not to raise the siege. Don Frederic was clearly of opinion that enough had been done for the honor of the Spanish arms. He was wearied with seeing his men perish helplessly around him, and considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost. His father thought differently. Perhaps he recalled the siege of Metz, and the unceasing regret with which, as he believed, his imperial ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... get on with less difficulty than heretofore, but it was more because he wanted to spare Philip fatigue than because he disdained assistance, that he chose to go alone. Moreover, he did what he had never done for any one before—he actually hopped the whole length of the passage, beyond his own door to do the honours of Philip's room, and took a degree of pains for his comfort that seemed too marvellous to be true in one who had hitherto only ...

— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge

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