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But I do not remember to have seen any statement as to what the Northern States should have done--what they should have done, that is, as regards the South, or when they should have done it.

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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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  • And my mother would tell me what she'd done, and I'd laugh up at her, and she'd ask me what I'd done, and I'd tell her, but what I'd done was also so boring, and I knew it was, and I'd hurry over it so as not to bore her. —  Tanith_Lee_-_The_Silver_Metal_Lover3
  • They are drawn from two classes only, the old landowning class, and clerical families How, nothing that they have done is Russian?" —  The Idiot
  • What we do without a purpose begrudgingly, with a purpose becomes a delight, and no work is well done nor healthily done which is not enthusiastically done. —  Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
  • What's done is done, and can't be undone. —  Poor Jack
  • Depend upon it, sir, `that nothing is well done which is done in a hurry.' —  Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
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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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