Definition of 'done'
2. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]
3. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]
When something that you are cooking is done, it has been cooked long enough and is ready.
4. convention
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done in American English
verb transitive, verb intransitive
adjective
2.
completed; ended
3.
sufficiently cooked
4.
socially acceptable because acceptable to arbiters of good taste
usually in a negative construction it just isn't done
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British English: done
/dʌn/ ADJECTIVE
A task that is done has been completed.
The damage has already been done.
- American English: done /ˈdʌn/
- Arabic: مُكَمَّل
- Brazilian Portuguese: feito
- Chinese: 完成了
- Croatian: učinjen
- Czech: hotový
- Danish: afsluttet
- Dutch: gedaan
- European Spanish: hecho
- Finnish: tehty
- French: fait
- German: erledigt
- Greek: τετελεσμένος
- Italian: fatto
- Japanese: 終了した
- Korean: 끝난
- Norwegian: ferdig
- Polish: sporządzony
- European Portuguese: feito
- Romanian: făcut
- Russian: сделанный
- Latin American Spanish: hecho terminado
- Swedish: gjord
- Thai: ซึ่งถูกทำแล้ว, เสร็จแล้ว
- Turkish: yapılmış
- Ukrainian: зроблений
- Vietnamese: đã xong
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