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English
Etymology
Perhaps from a transposition of fordone (“destroyed, ruined”).
Adjective
done for (not comparable)
- Doomed; without hope of recovery.
He's done for when they hear that piece of testimony.
c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama , Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 3: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.
1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 6:I think of Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.
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Verb
done for
- past participle of do for
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