done up

1. participlepastpast participle of do up

comparative more done up · superlative most done up

1. colloquialobsoleteWorn-out, exhausted.

   "By ginger, I'm glad you came along, Mudgy; I give you my word I couldn't have walked another half-mile. I'm done up, absolutely."

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65

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   "You'd better lie down for a bit. I expect you're about done up." -- "There's nowhere for me to lie down, sir," he answered, and there was in his voice a humbleness which was very distressing. -- "Don't you know anyone in the house who'll give you a shakedown? -- "No, sir."

   1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage

   Synonyms: tired, used up, consumed, depleted, out, effete, exhausted, all

2. UScolloquialobsoleteRuined by excess, especially gambling.

   Near-synonyms: effete, dissipated

   Synonyms: effete, dissipated