Word of the Day: Done

done

done / dŭn

adjective

1. finished; completed

The man who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt a man who is doing it.

Chinese Proverb

2. sufficiently cooked

To roast anything, just apply a light coating of oil to a food, season it, and place it in a low walled pan and put it in a hot oven until it is done.

“Cooking Terms and Techniques”, ‘Kitchen Kapers’, www.kitchenkapers.com/pages/terms, accessed March 13, 2023

3. socially acceptable

They had forced on her her ‘woman’s destiny’ by saying, ‘This isn’t done, this isn’t good, this isn’t worthy of a lady.’

Indira Gandhi, 1917 – 1984

4. worn out; used up; exhausted

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verb

1. the past participle of the verb ‘do’

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

From the “Book Of Common Prayer”