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done for

adj

Etymology

Perhaps from a transposition of fordone (“destroyed, ruined”).

Definitions

  1. Doomed

    Doomed; without hope of recovery.

    • He's done for when they hear that piece of testimony.
    • I'd like to know what would become of us in the next ten minutes. They've got us in a vise. We're done for, Gall.
    • I think of Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.

  2. See done, for

    See done, for: Punished because of.

  3. past participle of do for

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA