DONE FOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does done for mean? 

• DONE FOR (adjective)
  The adjective DONE FOR has 2 senses:

1. destroyed or killed

2. doomed to extinction

  Familiarity information: DONE FOR used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DONE FOR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destroyed or killed

Synonyms:

done for; gone; kaput

Context example:

we are gone geese

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Doomed to extinction

Synonyms:

done for; ruined; sunk; undone; washed-up

Similar:

unsuccessful (not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome)

 Context examples 

But, (in a deep tone,) it was not done for her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"She's done for me, I fear," was the faint reply.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Well,” he added after he had dosed them round and they had taken his prescriptions, with really laughable humility, more like charity schoolchildren than blood-guilty mutineers and pirates—“well, that's done for today.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She had done no more for them than they had done for each other.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“I’d liked to have done for you first, Hump. And I thought I had that much left in me.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is mostly done for people with severe type 1 diabetes.

(Pancreas Transplantation, NIH)

Everything was done for the best, my dear Mr. Wickfield; everything was done for the kindest and best, we know.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The adventure of the night does not seem to have harmed her; on the contrary, it has benefited her, for she looks better this morning than she has done for weeks.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Of course I understand. He deserves all that can be done for him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)