done for
Meaning
do for
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, for.
- To doom; to bring about the demise of someone; to injure or harm someone.
- To prosecute someone for a criminal offence.
- To work as a domestic servant for.
- (slang) To tire; to exhaust.
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Etymology
Perhaps from a transposition of fordone (“destroyed, ruined”).
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