Done
[dʌn]
Definition
(adj.) cooked until ready to serve .
(adj.) having finished or arrived at completion; 'certain to make history before he's done'; 'it's a done deed'; 'after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up'; 'almost through with his studies' .
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Definition
(p. p.) of Do
(-) p. p. from Do, and formerly the infinitive.
(infinitive.) Performed; executed; finished.
(infinitive.) It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically.
(a.) Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
p. [1]. Performed, executed, accomplished, achieved, effected.[2]. Completed, finished, concluded, ended, terminated.[3]. Transacted, carried on.[4]. Bestowed, conferred, vouchsafed, granted.[5]. Translated, rendered.
Editor: Olaf
Definition
pa.p. of Do often with sense of utterly exhausted: so Done up Done out.
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Examples
- Yet it was a hard time for sensitive, high-spirited Jo, who meant so well and had apparently done so ill. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But please to tell me at once what you have done. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Unquenchables had done their best to be worthy of the name, for like elves they had worked by night and conjured up a comical surprise. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It has been done before. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- No, I've done my lessons for the day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- This was done with effect, as is proved by the Confederate reports. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- You have already done me good, and you and I are now, I hope, sworn friends. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I suppose they have not done trying on yet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- On a night like this it would be nothing to take the posts and blow the bridge and it would all be over and done with. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He has never done anything to me, my dear. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He had done worse than listen, as I privately thought to myself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I think we may have done with the growlery for one day! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The quarter is not due till Christmas, but you may pay it, and have done with it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Expressions of incredulity and surprise, which he could not repress, interrupted me several times before I had done. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was all done in dumb show, the women danced their emotion in gesture and motion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And where are we going to go when this is done? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I suppose nothing more could be done, sir, than was done? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Some two hours after the tapping is done the flow entirely ceases and the tree must be tapped anew to secure a fresh flow. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No--let the new Hospital be joined with the old Infirmary, and everything go on as it might have done if I had never come. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is a thousand pities that we have not a reproduction of those which were done in chalk upon the window-sill. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A few days before she had done a dreadful thing, and it weighed upon her conscience. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The van der Luydens had done their best to emphasise the importance of the occasion. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I didn't think he'd ha' done it, though--I didn't think he'd ha' done it! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And pray has he done so? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He will do the best that can be done for thee, George. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But then he knew it--he knew it, and had done. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I would never have treated Miss Crawley's faithful friends as that odious designing Mrs. Bute has done. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- So I put it to you, who know: What HAS he done with her? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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