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DONE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cooked until ready to serve
Classified under:
Similar:
cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having finished or arrived at completion
Example:
almost through with his studies
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
finished (ended or brought to an end)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb do
Context examples:
"I promise," said Lucy, "and thank you both a thousand times for all your kindness to me! Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such friends?"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In short, the things he did were done because it was easier to do them than not to do them.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
“What have I done?” said Steerforth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Art thou willing to do no less than what Old Kinoos hath done?" He nodded his head, and waited.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Let me give you a short sketch of what I have done, with some indication of what we are about to do.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I trust he has done you no wrong, that you should be so hot against him.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Ah, you that's young—you and me might have done a power of good together!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Ah!” said she, “he is in trouble! What has he done?”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“I’ve always been reckoned a genelman-like sort of man,” said Berks, thickly, “but if so be as I’ve said or done what I ’adn’t ought to—”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To be done after eating breakfast.
(After Breakfast, NCI Thesaurus)
