done for

Meaning

do for

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, for.
  2. To doom; to bring about the demise of someone; to injure or harm someone.
  3. To prosecute someone for a criminal offence.
  4. To work as a domestic servant for.
  5. (slang) To tire; to exhaust.

Etymology

Perhaps from a transposition of fordone (“destroyed, ruined”).

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