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done definition

done (dun)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

do

adjective

  1. completed; ended
  2. sufficiently cooked
  3. socially acceptable because acceptable to arbiters of good taste: usually in a negative construction it just isn't done
done Idioms

done (for)

Informal
  1. dead, ruined, etc.
  2. discarded or dismissed as a failure

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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