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He won’t just sit around for months while the police slowly solve the case, while they decide that what he’s done is just as bad.

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  1. verb Past participle of do1.
  2. adjective Having been carried out or accomplished; finished: a done deed.
  3. adjective Cooked adequately.

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  • He won’t just sit around for months while the police slowly solve the case, while they decide that what he’s done is just as bad. —  Hayden's Ferry Review Issue 45
  • I thought it was a natural, it was set during the Spanish Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars, and done from the Spanish viewpoint. —  Burning Water
  • At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done -- then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. —  The Secret Garden
  • To Damian, asking whether God can undo the done is asking whether God can bring about a contradictory state of affairs. —  Peter Damian
  • And he's now calling for a report to be done on whether they cause hearing loss, a report to be done from the National Institute of Health. —  CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2006
 

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  1. The perfect participle of do, v.: see do. Only special uses of done are noted here.
 

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