done

Less common meanings

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   cookedadjective

   Cooked thoroughly enough to be ready to eat.

   Pull the steak off the grill once it's done to your liking.

   The bread is done when it sounds hollow as you tap the bottom.

   UsageCommon with meat: well done, or done to your liking.

   Similarcooked, ready

   Oppositeraw, undercooked

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   dealinterjection

   Said to accept a proposal or offer and finalize the agreement.

   "Fifty for the pair." "Done," said the buyer, shaking hands.

   Done. I accept your terms and we'll sign tomorrow.

   Similaragreed

   Note

   The one-word close of a bargain: a reply that accepts an offer and ends the haggling. In Star Trek: The Next Generation (1994), Yog answers Riker's offer of biomimetic gel with a flat Done. It is often sealed with a handshake. Keep it apart from the "task completed" cry: that one reports your own work, while this one answers someone else's terms. Source

   Checked 30 Oct 2026 · 2 facts

   • The cited Star Trek: The Next Generation episode aired in 1994. en.wikipedia.org
   • Yog replies “Done” to Riker's offer of biomimetic gel. en.wiktionary.org
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   exhaustedadjective

   Worn out with no energy left, or, of a supply, completely used up.

   By midnight she was utterly done and fell asleep instantly.

   Three shifts in a row left him absolutely done.

   UsageOf people, often strengthened: utterly done, absolutely done.

   Similarexhausted, spent, drained, shattered, beat

   Oppositefresh

   Note

   Spent supplies count as well as spent people: when the water is done, there is none left. Applied to a resource, the word means used up rather than tired, and the thing itself is the subject of is or are.

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   no chanceadjective

   Having no hope or prospect of success; ruined or finished.

   Once the funding dried up, the startup was done.

   He knew he was done the moment the evidence came out.

   Similarfinished, ruined, doomed

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   punishedadjectivecolloquial

   Caught out and punished, especially for a crime or offense.

   He got done for shoplifting and had to pay a fine.

   Two drivers were done for running the red light.

   UsageUsually get done for + the offense: got done for speeding. In formal writing, use punished, or specify the actual penalty.

   Similarnicked, caught, charged

   Note

   Liam Houlihan's Return To The Badlands (2012) uses it this way, as does Brooke van Velden speaking in the New Zealand Parliament in 2021. Source

   Checked 1 Nov 2026 · 3 facts

   • Liam Houlihan wrote Return To The Badlands. mup.com.au
   • Return To The Badlands contains this use of done. en.wiktionary.org
   • Brooke van Velden used this sense while speaking in the New Zealand Parliament in 2021. en.wiktionary.org
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    properadjective

    Regarded as fashionable, tasteful, or socially acceptable.

    In those circles, arriving late to dinner simply wasn't done.

    Discussing money so openly was not considered done at the time.

    UsageMostly in the done thing, or in the negative: it isn't done, it simply wasn't done.

    Similaracceptable, proper, appropriate, seemly, correct

    Oppositeunacceptable, improper, inappropriate

    Note

    The negative is the more pointed of the two: it disapproves of the conduct without naming anyone.

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    verbdialectalCockneySouthern USauxiliary

    Used before a verb to mark a completed action, expressing the perfective aspect.

    We done seen that movie last week.

    He done left before anybody even noticed.

    Note

    An auxiliary in its own right in African-American Vernacular, Southern US and Cockney speech. Placed before a past-tense or participle form, it stresses that the action is completely over: she done left, I done made some real bad choices (Moneybagg Yo, 2020). It can even come before did, as in Nas's I done did (2022). Unlike the dialect past tense, it does not replace did; it adds completion. Source

    Checked 3 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

    • Moneybagg Yo sings the quoted words in “Thug Cry”, dated 2020; the wording matches the source. en.wiktionary.org
    • Nas uses the quoted construction in “Legit”, from King's Disease III, dated 2022; the wording matches the source. en.wiktionary.org
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    verbdialectal

    Simple past of do. Nonstandard and dialectal: standard English uses did.

    They done the work in half the time we expected.

    We done a good day's work out in the field.

    Note

    Here the participle stands in for did, with no auxiliary in front: I knew I done the right thing, as Jack Leck writes in Gay Community News (1985), or I done it for love. Source

    Checked 1 Nov 2026 · 1 fact

    • Jack Leck wrote “I knew I done the right thing” in Gay Community News in 1985. en.wiktionary.org
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    methadonenounslanguncountableabbreviationclipping

    Short for methadone: a synthetic opioid drug taken daily to treat heroin addiction, and also used to relieve pain.

    The clinic switched him from heroin to a daily dose of done.

    Missing his done made the withdrawal symptoms much worse.

    UsageHeard in on the done, meaning in methadone treatment. Medical writing uses methadone.

    Note

    Street and clinic shorthand for methadone, the substitute drug used in treating heroin and morphine addiction. Source

    Checked 1 Nov 2026 · 2 facts

    • Done is a clipping of methadone. en.wiktionary.org
    • Methadone is a substitute drug used to treat heroin and morphine addiction. health.nsw.gov.au
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    noun

    Another spelling of dhoni: a traditional Maldivian boat driven by sail or motor, much like a dhow.
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    verbobsolete

    Plural simple present of do.

    The while their Foes done eache of hem ſcoꝛne.

    1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”