1. Having finished or arrived at completion
   "certain to make history before he's done"; "it's a done deed";
   - through, through with
    
2. [Brit] Socially appropriate or approved
   "Wearing white to a wedding isn't done";
   - correct, right
    
3. Cooked until ready to serve
   "The roast is done and ready to be carved"
    
4. Depleted of content, energy, force, strength; have nothing left
   "After the marathon, the runners were completely done";
   - exhausted, spent

1. Engage in
   "do research"; "do nothing";
   - make
    
2. Carry out an action
   "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "she did a little dance";
   - perform, execute
    
3. Get (something) done
   "I did my job";
   - perform
    
4. Perform, succeed or manage over a period of time
   "How is she doing in her new job?";
   - fare, make out, come, get along
    
5. Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
   "The news did nothing to calm the situation";
   - cause, make, engender
    
6. Carry out, engage in (as of jobs and professions)
   "do law";
   - practice [N. Amer], practise [Brit, Cdn], exercise
    
7. Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
   "Will $100 do?";
   - suffice, answer, serve
    
8. Create or design, often in a certain way
   "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest";
   - make
    
9. Show a certain behaviour; conduct or comport oneself
   "What makes her do this way?";
   - act, behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry
    
10. Spend time in prison or in a labour camp
    "He did six years for embezzlement";
    - serve
     
11. Carry on or function
    "We could do with a little more help around here";
    - manage
     
12. Style or arrange hair attractively
    "do my hair for the wedding";
    - dress, arrange, set, coif, coiffe, coiffure
     
13. Travel or traverse (a distance)
    "We did 6 miles on our hike every day"; "This car does 150 miles per hour"

Sounds like: dollar, dolour, dolore, dun, Donn

See also: cooked, finished, proper

Type of: accomplish, act, action, bear on, carry on, carry out, carry through, continue, create, execute, fulfil [Brit, Cdn], fulfill [N. Amer], go, groom, live up to, locomote, make, move, neaten, pass, preserve, proceed, satisfy, spend, travel, uphold

Encyclopedia: Done, Richard