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done

[duhn]

verb

past participle of do¹.

Nonstandard. a simple past tense of do¹.

auxiliary verb

South Midland and Southern U.S. Nonstandard. (used with a principal verb in the past or, sometimes, present tense to indicate completed action): I done told you so. He done eat his lunch.

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adjective

completed; finished; through: Our work is done.

cooked sufficiently.

worn out; exhausted; used up.

in conformity with fashion, good taste, or propriety; acceptable: It isn't done.

Idioms

be/have done with, to break off relations or connections with; stop.

done for, Informal.

tired; exhausted.

deprived of one's means, position, etc.

dead or close to death.

10.

done in, Informal. very tired; exhausted: He was really done in after a close race.

Related forms

half-done, adjective

Usage note
4. In the adjectival sense “completed, finished, through,” done dates from the 14th century and is entirely standard: Is your portrait done yet?

Example Sentences

Nothing can or should be done to halt the spread of the beetle, experts say.

While much of the scholarship has focused on adolescents, work has also been done on the phenomenon at the college level.

Protesters around the world demand that something must be done.

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Nothing can or should be done to halt the spread of the beetle, experts say.

While much of the scholarship has focused on adolescents, work has also been done on the phenomenon at the college level.

Protesters around the world demand that something must be done.

They will conclude by pretending to be specialists called in to help, and listing the things they think need to be done to help.

Fracking may have a lot of upside, but such fossil-fuel exploration and exploitation has to be done right.

Matsuzawa had done some basic studies with rats and monkeys, but he knew little about chimpanzees.

Drying can be done outside or in a dehydrator, depending on the climate.

Really, the only way to deal with this problem is to consider the work-energy principle and the work done by the electric field.

All of my subsequent interviews were done in jeans or pajamas.

The politicians need to stop the rhetoric, roll up their sleeves and get the job done.

Often done with crude knives in one of their huts, the painful operations can cause life-long health risks.

I've done a fair am't of research on what is happening.

The bread is done when the surface appears smooth and is dry to the touch.

Conventional wisdom has it that a chicken is done when the juices at the thigh joint run clear.

There's really no way to hide what you're doing on the iPhone until after its already done.

Imagine if every company you had never done business with required you to opt out of their junk mailings.

Our correspondents discuss what needs to be done to rescue the single currency.

One of the best ways to conserve water is to buy recycled goods, and to recycle your stuff when you're done with it.

These other treatments can also be done outside the frac job, independently of it, at a different time.

Perhaps it could be done through the colleges and universities, with all of the disciplines involved.

Since this method cuts right through leaves, it's best done on small-leafed plants, where damage is less noticeable.

All the activities done by two astronauts is done by one.

Importantly, you only get to color in the blocks when you've actually done the work.

Adult cells might also be reprogrammed directly, which has been done with some types of pancreatic and heart cells.

Ask students if some of the activities can be done in more than one season.

After four rounds of antibiotics, her gastroenterologist told her that he had done all he could think of.

However, over the years,some mean and hateful people have done some mean and hateful things to other human beings.

Stick a label in the ground beside the rose and you're done.

But perhaps not as much as they would have done a few months ago.

Instead it was done by a single disturbed adolescent who told friends he thought it would be funny.

There are many articles on-line on how it's done and how little waste is actually left to deal with.

Well, you've done a great job with this online exhibit.

The finished floors remain under wraps until all interior painting is done.

What certainly should not be done is customizing stories to fit individual readers.

Faculty members were intrigued by the idea and decided to see if it could be done.

The tobacco industry has known for decades how to remove a dangerous isotope from cigarettes but has done nothing about it.

Cooking perhaps will not be done at all on any large scale at home.

When you're done cracking and snacking, try these ideas for using walnuts in the kitchen.

Marker realized that the cheetah population was rapidly declining and that something had to be done to save them.

But one group of herbivorous dinosaurs appears to have done well in this harsh place.

Once you've done that, you can usually untangle the stems and make thinning cuts to remove unwanted growth at ground level.

Read about what's being done to protect many plant species that provide our food.

I've done this in hot chocolate before, but never thought to try it with coffee.

Rake soil back over the exposed rows and you're done.

But in his eyes there's a hint that he might have done it.

Bathing outdoors is the height of mountain living, especially when done in a rugged style.

Furthermore, something had to be done for the people as well as for the chimps.

Slide the fruit tarts into the oven after the hens and hash are done.

Taking stock of one's life: things done well, things done less well.

Plus, students participated more because they had actually done the reading.

Has anyone done a study of the adoption of electric lighting from this perspective.

The co-chair of the world's largest philanthropy talks about what can be done to improve global health and poverty.

Allow me to introduce you to the game that caused you to not get any work done today.

One of the designers of a radical new fuel-cell-car concept explains what was done.

It was essentially done by the president himself, with the advice of these advisers”.

In the military, things are usually done on a need to know basis.

Our current dept head took the position three or four years ago, and since then, we've done quite a bit of.

Like recalcitrant teenagers, they are grudgingly giving in and doing the homework they should have done ages ago.

Industrialized countries in the past have done their share of plundering and polluting.

Anything that could be done to save his life was worth trying.

It's all done without government subsidies, cost-sharing, nutrient management plans or confinement livestock systems.

Pieces are done as soon as they are no longer pink in the center.

They've done so by figuring out smarter ways to distribute aid dollars and effectively market themselves to prospective students.

Many of these things are being done by cities or states, and have worked fairly well.

Applied with a small stick, the markings are done in a linear.

It needed to function in a vacuum, and it got the job done.

Many colleges have not yet done so, which the veterans-affairs department has called a source of the delays.

Vanguardia had certainly done enough to raise the president's ire.

The food can be done to a chef's specifications, every time.

It was unprecedented both in the scale of human damage done and.

All writing, including that done by staff reporters, is carefully edited.

Done with razor blades, the painful process starts at puberty and.

And that's what a research team thinks they've done.

It's a reminder that listening to my brother practice his trombone might best be done from the room next door.

Spiced apple cider will keep your hands warm after you're done.

Frankly, it should be done before wasting the money on an application fee.

Get a decent amount of reading done in there sometimes.

Soon the manta ray is clean and the fish are done eating.

Repeat until there is no more science or technology to be done.

They've done this hundreds of times and are casual about protection.

All this is done in hopes of thrilling female prairie chickens.

More has to be done with less, which is cloud computing's main promise.

Here's a little taste of how it's done when no pavement is allowed.

These results agree with previous work done with monkeys and healthy human volunteers.

It is also surprising to see how large an area is being excavated, and how much excavation remains to be done.

Shopping is done only twice a year at a thrift store and replaces.

That's true of much of the work done in the humanities.

What's unique about these films, particularly with lions, is that the filming is done out of the vehicles.

Patients who leave emergency rooms tend to be unclear about what was done for them or what they should do next.

Her strength is in her strategic vision, coupled with a down-to-earth drive to get the job done.

I've done one online training program and have one more to do in a few weeks.

One way this might be done is to place a grid of wires behind them and induce a magnetic field where the wires cross.

When everyone wishing to share their thoughts has done so, generate a discussion on the types of statements given.

Little research has been done on their health and environmental effects, and silver kills good microorganisms along with the bad.

But there isn't a lot of archaeological research from this time period being done in the region.

They would know if there's anything done nationally.

But there are other things that could be done to solve the recruitment problems-often at little cost.

Computers have done a decent job predicting temperature over the years, but have not done as well predicting moisture.

Rules and regulations should be in place so that streams aren't polluted, and no significant damage is done to neighboring lands.

They are convinced that the world is warming in a dangerous way and something needs to be done.

These crêpes are simple to make and fill, and can be mostly done the day before.

Your idea sounds great, so even if nothing officially is done nationally, maybe you can get it started.

The internet has done wonders for communication and productivity.

The computer model also helped reveal what the cat might have done once it had its prey down on the ground.

The article implies that chemicals should be done away with in water treatment.

Fair has done an amazing job of making the subjects of his photographs look so beautiful and intriguing.

And pat yourself on the back for having done so the next apparently.

Become a provost and it's patently obvious who gets things done.

But defining unnecessary cruelty is easier said than done.

Much of this dangerous work is still done by hand with machetes-and conditions can be spartan.

Farming must soon be done without irrigation, artificial pesticides, or artificial fertilizers.

If you have done everything right and your tomatoes fail to set fruit in the spring, use hormone spray on blossoms.

Had they done so, economic slowdown could well have turned into a sharp recession.

Done right, you tackle not one but several new summits by the time you.

There is much more that can be done by this global candy food giant.

My garden is eight blocks from the beach and this plant has done well from the moment it was planted.

Methane seeps, then, look as if they act as nurseries for sharks-and may have done so for a long time.

In other cases sufficient funding might not be available and the research would not be done, or would not be done so thoroughly.

By the end of the weekend, enough had been done to prevent panic.

But the coup's leaders have done nothing to ease reconciliation.

So he could have done more to experiment with the design of the top.

Strictly speaking, when the necessary jobs have been done.

There's not much can be done about the rivers' flooding.

They desire to feel that everything that can be done, has been done.

There is nothing that can be done by human astronauts on the moon that can't be done by remotely operated robots.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to perform (an act, duty, role, etc.): Do nothing until you hear the bell.

to execute (a piece or amount of work): to do a hauling job.

to accomplish; finish; complete: He has already done his homework.

to put forth; exert: Do your best.

to be the cause of (good, harm, credit, etc.); bring about; effect.

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to render, give, or pay (homage, justice, etc.).

to deal with, fix, clean, arrange, move, etc., (anything) as the case may require: to do the dishes.

to travel; traverse: We did 30 miles today.

to serve; suffice for: This will do us for the present.

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to condone or approve, as by custom or practice: That sort of thing simply isn't done.

11.

to travel at the rate of (a specified speed): He was doing 80 when they arrested him.

12.

to make or prepare: I'll do the salad.

13.

to serve (a term of time) in prison, or, sometimes, in office.

14.

to create, form, or bring into being: She does wonderful oil portraits.

15.

to translate into or change the form or language of: MGM did the book into a movie.

16.

to study or work at or in the field of: I have to do my math tonight.

17.

to explore or travel through as a sightseer: They did Greece in three weeks.

18.

(used with a pronoun, as it or that, or with a general noun, as thing, that refers to a previously mentioned action): You were supposed to write thank-you letters; do it before tomorrow, please.

19.

Informal. to wear out; exhaust; tire: That last set of tennis did me.

20.

Informal. to cheat, trick, or take advantage of: That crooked dealer did him for $500 at poker.

21.

Informal. to attend or participate in: Let's do lunch next week.

22.

Slang. to use (a drug or drugs), especially habitually: The police report said he was doing cocaine.

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verb (used without object)

23.

to act or conduct oneself; be in action; behave.

24.

Slang. to rob; steal from: The law got him for doing a lot of banks.

25.

to proceed: to do wisely.

26.

to get along; fare; manage: to do without an automobile.

27.

to be in health, as specified: Mother and child are doing fine.

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28.

to serve or be satisfactory, as for the purpose; be enough; suffice: Will this do?

29.

to finish or be finished.

30.

to happen; take place; transpire: What's doing at the office?

31.

(used as a substitute to avoid repetition of a verb or full verb expression): I think as you do.

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auxiliary verb

32.

(used in interrogative, negative, and inverted constructions): Do you like music? I don't care. Seldom do we witness such catastrophes.

33.

Archaic. (used in imperatives with you or thou expressed; and occasionally as a metric filler in verse): Do thou hasten to the king's side. The wind did blow, the rain did fall.

34.

(used to lend emphasis to a principal verb): Do visit us!

noun

35.

Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.

36.

Informal. a hairdo or hair styling.

37.

British Slang. a swindle; hoax.

38.

Chiefly British. a festive social gathering; party.

Verb phrases

39.

do by, to deal with; treat: He had always done well by his family.

40.

do for,

to cause the defeat, ruin, or death of.

Chiefly British. to cook and keep house for; manage or provide for.

41.

do in, Informal.

to kill, especially to murder.

to injure gravely or exhaust; wear out; ruin: The tropical climate did them in.

to cheat or swindle: He was done in by an unscrupulous broker.

42.

do over, to redecorate.

43.

do up, Informal.

to wrap and tie up.

to pin up or arrange (the hair).

to renovate; launder; clean.

to wear out; tire.

to fasten: Do up your coat.

to dress: The children were all done up in funny costumes.

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44.

do with, to gain advantage or benefit from; make use of: I could do with more leisure time.

45.

do without,

to forgo; dispense with.

to dispense with the thing mentioned: The store doesn't have any, so you'll have to do without.

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Idioms

46.

do a number on (someone). number (def. 39).

47.

do away with,

to put an end to; abolish.

to kill.

48.

do one proud. proud (def. 11).

49.

do one's number. number (def. 40).

50.

do one's (own) thing. thing¹ (def. 19).

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51.

do or die, to make a supreme effort.

52.

do out of, Informal. to swindle; cheat: A furniture store did me out of several hundred dollars.

53.

dos and don'ts, customs, rules, or regulations: The dos and don'ts of polite manners are easy to learn.

54.

do time, Informal. to serve a term in prison: It's hard to get a decent job once you've done time.

55.

do to death. death (def. 15).

56.

have to do with. have (def. 37).

57.

make do, to get along with what is at hand, despite its inadequacy: I can't afford a new coat so I have to make do with this one.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English dōn; cognate with Dutch doen, German tun; akin to Latin -dere to put, facere to make, do, Greek tithénai to set, put, Sanskrit dadhāti (he) puts

Synonyms
1, 25. act. 3. Do, accomplish, achieve mean to bring some action to a conclusion. Do is the general word: He did a great deal of hard work. Accomplish and achieve both connote successful completion of an undertaking. Accomplish emphasizes attaining a desired goal through effort, skill, and perseverance: to accomplish what one has hoped for. Achieve emphasizes accomplishing something important, excellent, or great: to achieve a major breakthrough.

Link To done

Collins

World English Dictionary

done (dʌn)

—vb
1.	the past participle of do
2.	be done with, have done with to end relations with
3.	have done to be completely finished: have you done?
4.	that's done it
	a. an exclamation of frustration when something is ruined
	b. an exclamation when something is completed

—*interj*
5.	an expression of agreement, as on the settlement of a bargain between two parties

—*adj*
6.	completed; finished
7.	cooked enough: done to a turn
8.	used up: they had to surrender when the ammunition was done
9.	socially proper or acceptable: that isn't done in higher circles
10.	informal cheated; tricked
11.	informal done for
	a. dead or almost dead
	b. in serious difficulty
12.	informal done in, done up physically exhausted

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

M.E. do, first person singular of O.E. don "make, act, perform, cause," from W.Gmc. *don, from PIE base *dhe- "to put, place, do, make" (see factitious). Slang meaning "to do the sex act with or to" is from 1913. Third person does was a Northumbrian variant in O.E. that

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displaced doth, doeth 16c.-17c. The pt. did is O.E. dyde, the only remainder in Gmc. of the old linguistic pattern of forming a pt. by reduplication of the stem of the present tense. Far back in Gmc. the equivalent of did was used as a suffix to make the past tenses of other verbs, hence the English -ed suffix (O.E. -de). The pp. done grew out of O.E. pp. gedon, but the only vestige of the prefix is in ado. Use as an auxiliary began in M.E. Periphrastic form in negative sentences ("They did not think") replaced the O.E. negative particles ("Hie ne wendon"). U.S. Southern use of done in phrases like "he done gone to the store" is attested from 1827, according to OED: "a perfective auxiliary or with adverbial force in the sense 'already; completely.' " Slang done for "doomed" is from 1842. Expression do or die is attested from 1620s.

done

Past participle of do.

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Slang Dictionary

do (so) definition

tv.
to make someone tired. : That tennis game really did me in.
tv.
to cheat someone; to take (so) in. : The scam artists did the widow in by talking her into giving them all the money in her bank account.
tv.
to kill someone. : The crooks did the bank guard in.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

done

In addition to the idioms beginning with done, also see easier said than done; good as done; have done (with); no sooner said (than done); not done; over and done with; seen one, seen them all (been there, done that); what's done is done; when all's said and done. Also see under do.

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