done

comparative more done · superlative most done · alternative Northumbria dyun

1. Having completed or finished an activity.

   He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done."

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   They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.

   Synonyms: finished, through

2. Completed or finished.

   I'll text you when the movie's done.

   Synonyms: completed, concluded, finished, in the books, concluded, complete, completed, ended

3. Ready, fully cooked.

   As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.

4. Being exhausted, used up, or fully spent.

   When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.

5. Without hope or prospect of completion or success.

   He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.

   Synonyms: accursed, fey, undone, accursed, condemned, cursed, star-crossed, sunk

6. Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.

   What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!

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   I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done!

   Synonyms: a la mode, natty, trendy, a la mode/à la mode, all the rage, chic, sassy, cool

7. CanadaPhiladelphiaScotlandpredicativeFinished with (something).

   I'm done my homework.

8. colloquialPunished.

   I can say what I like now because I am mental and I can't get done for it.

   2012 May 1, Liam Houlihan, Return To The Badlands: Twelve Enthralling True Cases Of Crooks, Cults And Crackpots, Melbourne Univ. Publishing, →ISBN

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   Normally, when you pass a law in New Zealand, you can't be done for it if you broke the law in the past.

   2021, Brooke van Velden, comments in the New Zealand Parliament regarding the COVID-19 Response (Management Measures) Legislation Bill

   Synonyms: chastised, chastised, punished

alternative Northumbria dyun

1. participlepastpast participle of do

   There's nothing to be done.

2. dialectalnonstandardpastsimple past of do; did.

   Be Still... and Know That I Am God: Devotions for Every Day of the Year She opened it up to find a quarter and a note scrawled in childish letters that said, "I done it for love."

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   I knew I done the right thing and I'd do it all over again.

   1985 December 14, Jack Leck, “Stick Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 4

3. CockneySouthern USauxiliaryAfrican-American Vernacular; taking a past tense; African-American Vernacular; taking a past tenseUsed in forming the perfective aspect; have.

   I woke up and found out she done left.

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   I done made some real bad choices with my life

   2020, Moneybagg Yo, “Thug Cry”

   On my soul, this for my kids and the cold shit I done did

   2022, Nas, “Legit”, in King's Disease III

alternative Northumbria dyun

1. Expresses that a task has been completed.

   Synonyms: all done, finished, there, voilà, agreed, done and done, you have a deal

2. Expresses agreement to and conclusion of a proposal, a set of terms, a sale, a request, etc.

   Riker: Would you be interested in selling me the ore you're carrying? / Yog: No. I have a buyer. / Riker: You haven't heard my offer. Half a gram of Anjoran biomimetic gel. / Yog: Done.

   1994, René Echevarria, “Firstborn”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episode 21, Jonathan Frakes and Joel Swetow (actors)

1. obsoletepluralpresentplural simple present of do

   The while their Foes done eache of hem ſcoꝛne.

   1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 18, verso

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   O you Cæleſtiall euer-liuing fires, That done inflame our hearts with high deſires; […]

   1606, N[athaniel] B[axter], Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia, That Is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing All Philosophie, London: […] Ed. Allde, for Edward White, […], →OCLC, signature D2, recto

   The soul of Naboth lies to Ahab told, As done the learnèd Hebrew Doctours write, […]

   1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Antipsychopannychia or The Third Book of the Song of the Soul: Containing a Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death. The Præexistency of the Soul, […].”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) […] (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), [Edinburgh: […] Edinburgh University Press; Thomas and Archibald Constable, […]] for private circulation, published 1878, →OCLC, stanza 63, page 125, column 1

alternative 'done

1. abbreviationclippingslanguncountableClipping of methadone.

   on the done

plural dones

1. alternativeAlternative form of dhoni.

plural Dones

1. A surname.