done for en · ADJ
Etymology
Perhaps from a transposition of fordone (“destroyed, ruined”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Doomed; without hope of recovery.
I think of Spengler and of his terrible pronunciamentos, and I wonder if style, style in the grand manner, is done for.
1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 6: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.
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:He's done for when they hear that piece of testimony.
- (not-comparable) See done, for: Punished because of.
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Translations (12)
de geliefert (without hope) · cmn 沒救了 /没救了 (without hope) · az eşşəyi ölmək (without hope) · pl skończony (without hope) · az kitabı bağlanmaq (without hope) · az kəlmeyi-şəhadəti oxunmaq (without hope) · ca haver begut oli (without hope) · nn ute for seg (without hope) · az işi bitmək (without hope) · it spacciato (without hope) · cmn 完蛋 (without hope) · az zurnası çalınmaq (without hope)