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done_up
done up
English
Verb
- past participle of do up
Adjective
done up (comparative more done up, superlative most done up)
- (colloquial, obsolete) Worn-out, exhausted.
- 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage":
- "You'd better lie down for a bit. I expect you're about done up." -- "There's nowhere for me to lie down, sir," he answered, and there was in his voice a humbleness which was very distressing. -- "Don't you know anyone in the house who'll give you a shakedown? -- "No, sir."
- 1915, W.S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage":