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adjective
- Arrived at or brought to an end
"One more question and we're done."
- Doomed to failure, defeat, or death
- Gone by over
"The day of the circus big top is done."
- Physically exhausted
- Cooked sufficiently
"Check to see if the meat is done."
- Conformable to social convention
"not the done thing"
verb
- To bring to pass carry out
"do another's wishes"
- Put
- Perform, execute
"do some work"
- Commit
"crimes done deliberately"
- Bring about, effect
"trying to do good"
- To give freely pay
"do honor to her memory"
- To bring to an end finish
- To put forth exert
"did her best to win the race"
- To wear out especially by physical exertion exhaust
"At the end of the race they were pretty well done."
- To attack physically beat
- To bring into existence produce
"do a biography on the general"
- Used as a substitute verb especially to avoid repetition
- To play the role or character of
"He did Hamlet on Broadway."
- Mimic
- To perform in or serve as producer of
"do a play"
- To treat unfairly
- To prepare for use or consumption
- Set, arrange
"had her hair done"
- To apply cosmetics to
"wanted to do her face before the party"
- Decorate, furnish
"did the living room in Early American"
- To be engaged in the study or practice of
"do science"
- To pass over traverse
"did 20 miles yesterday"
- To travel at a speed of
"doing 55 on the turnpike"
- Tour
"doing 12 countries in 30 days"
- To spend (time) in prison
"has been doing time in a federal penitentiary"
- To serve out (a period of imprisonment)
"did ten years for armed robbery"
- To serve the needs of suit, suffice
"worms will do us for bait"
- To approve especially by custom, opinion, or propriety
"You oughtn't to say a thing like that … it's not done."
- To treat with respect to physical comforts
"did themselves well"
- Use
"doesn't do drugs"
- To have sexual intercourse with
"I'd do him."
- To partake of
"Let's do lunch."
- Act, behave
"do as I say"
- Get along, fare
"do well in school"
- To carry on business or affairs manage
"We can do without your help."
- To take place happen
"what's doing across the street"
- To come to or make an end finish
- To be active or busy
"let us then be up and doing"
- To be adequate or sufficient serve
"half of that will do"
- To be fitting conform to custom or propriety
"won't do to be late"
- Used as a substitute verb to avoid repetition
- Used in the imperative after an imperative to add emphasis
- Used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in legal and parliamentary language
- Used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in declarative sentences with inverted word order
- Used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses expressing emphasis
- to bring to pass : carry out
- put —used chiefly in do to death
- perform, execute
noun
- Fait accompli
"thought the trade was a done deal"
adjective
- Sunk in defeat beaten
- Mortally stricken doomed
idiom
- Cooked, performed, etc., in a perfect way done to perfection
"The chicken was done to a turn."
noun
- The verb form done used in African American English (as in “Everybody done gone” and “I done forgot his name!”) to indicate that something (such as an action, a state, or an event) has ended or been completed and often to add emotional emphasis (as to convey a reaction of shock, surprise, or disappointment) dən, preverbal done, unstressed done
"Their Black English vernacular dialect included some features such as … perfective done ("I done told you kids to go to bed")."
- The verb form done used in some varieties of Southern American English to communicate the completion of something (such as an action) preverbal done
"In the speech of white Southerners, perfective done has a wider distribution than it does in AAE =African American English. It can occur following the auxiliary be, which has not been reported in AAE (Green 2002). … It can also precede adjectives …"
noun
- The verb form done see done used in African American English (as in “Everybody done gone” and “I done forgot his name!”) to indicate that something (such as an action, a state, or an event) has ended or been completed and often to add emotional emphasis (as to convey a reaction of shock, surprise, or disappointment) dən, perfective done, unstressed done
"Rather than simply asserting that the subject was a participant in an event that occurred in the past, AAE =African American English preverbal done sentences would, in addition to this, assert that the subject is therefore in a state of having participated in that event. It is understandable, then, why speakers would make the pragmatic choice of using a done construction instead of a simple past construction such as After I won all that money in cases where personal responsibility is to be highlighted."
- The verb form done used in some varieties of Southern American English to communicate the completion of something (such as an action) perfective done
"Preverbal done … presents an interesting example of possible Creole (and therefore Black English) influence on Southern White speech."
- The verb form done used in Guyanese Creole see creole to communicate the completion of something (such as an event or state)
"Guyanese Creole also has a preverbal done (don) construction …"
noun
- The verb form done used in African American English to indicate that something (such as a state or an event) has ended or been completed or that the speaker is feeling an intense emotion (such as shock, surprise, or disappointment) that counters the speaker's expectations dən, perfective done, preverbal done
"… unstressed done continues to be used as a perfective marker (They done done it “They have finished doing it”) …"
adjective
- Rightly or properly performed
- Cooked thoroughly
"a well-done steak"
This clue was used on August 13, 2025.
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