done with
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2.6
- idiom
- Informal
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terminado
- If at all possible, work should be done with the youths and their families to prevent homelessness.
I'm still not done with the Oracle year by Chelsea.
- I'm still not done with the Oracle year by Chelsea.
- Well, we are officially done with the diving part.
- The fact that we're off, we're done with this for now, pretty much.
- Yeah, you have to be done with your brows at this step.
- And when I was done with that, I shifted back.
- No, Lebron's been done with this since he was in youth sports.
- I'm halfway done with the last parts that I need.
Examples
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And then I told him I was done with football.
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I think I'm done with this Adele record for now.
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But are you done with this, the whole thing?
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I think we might be done with the third floor here.
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But we're done with our meal.
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So I guess anyway, I just got done with my workout.
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So pretty much safe to say that I'm done with the internet.
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Well, we are officially done with the diving part.
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The earliest participation by international agencies was done with careful respect for the colonial governments.
Academic text (1993) -
After years of trying to make the relationship work, she finally realized she was done with him.
Synonyms
173
3.5
Not involved with something and not responsible for it
2
1.0
Complete and no longer needing work
Antonyms
How Involved
79
4.0
79
3.5
- Informal
404
2.6
1
4.7
20
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
done + with
The meaning 'having finished or no longer involved/interested' is directly derivable from 'done' (finished) combined with the preposition 'with' indicating the target of the finishing; this follows a common English pattern (e.g. 'done with X') that maps transparently onto the constituents. Because the relation is compositional and frequent, a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Done with may come from the image of moving a finished task into a 'done' box or off your task list, so the job is no longer in front of you. You have done it and it is now with the finished things, so the phrase means 'finished' or 'no longer involved'.