done English
Adjective
( en adjective)
(of food) Ready, fully cooked.
- As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.
In a state of having completed or finished an activity.
- He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done ."
- They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.
Being exhausted or fully spent.
- When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.
Without hope or prospect of completion or success.
- He is done , after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.
Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.
- I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done !
- What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!
Derived terms
* be done for
* be done with it
* done deal
* get done for
* overdone
* well done
Verb
( head)
- I have ''done'' my work.
(African American Vernacular English, Southern American English, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect.
- I done did my best to raise y'all.
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achieved English
Verb
(head)
(achieve)
achieve English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete )
Verb
( achiev)
To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
* I. Taylor
- Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
(obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
- Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve [...].
To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
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* {{quote-news, year=2013, date=January 22, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
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, passage=Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.}}
* (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night), II-v
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
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- Thou hast achieved our liberty.
(obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.
* Prior
- Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .
* (William Shakespeare), (Othello), II-i
- He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.
Synonyms
* accomplish, effect, fulfil, fulfill, complete, execute, perform, realize, obtain. See accomplish
Derived terms
* achievement
* achiever
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