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Definition of "done" []

  • Past participle of do1. (verb)
  • Having been carried out or accomplished; finished: a done deed. (adjective)
  • Cooked adequately. (adjective)
  • Socially acceptable: Spitting on the street is just not done in polite society. (adjective)
  • Informal Totally worn out; exhausted. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "done" in a sentence
  • "This was _to be done to have been done_ yesterday."
  • "Do so yourself; go right up to your neighbor without fear, and in love tell him to do the same, having this assurance on your mind continually, _that what ought to be done, can be done_."
  • "What are the deeds done in my body? the deeds which _I have done_."