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Done for

Done \Done\, p. p. from Do, and formerly the infinitive.

  1. Performed; executed; finished.

  2. It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically. Done brown, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. Done for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] Done up.

    1. Wrapped up.

    2. Worn out; exhausted. [Colloq.]

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done for

a. doomed; without hope of recovery.

WordNet
done for

  1. adj. destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: done for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)]

  2. doomed to extinction [syn: done for(p), ruined, sunk, undone, washed-up]

Usage examples of "done for".

Power Wagons lined up in the sandbox, slant-parked the way he always puts them when he's done for a while, the Ponderosa all neat with the plastic horses in their corral, the HQ Crisis Center down near the swing .