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done by

done by is the past participle of do by.

Meaning of do by

Verb

do by (third-person singular simple present does by, present participle doing by, simple past did by, past participle done by)

  1. (informal, usually) To perform on behalf of someone or with someone in mind; to behave in a manner befitting someone.
    • I've tried hard to do right by him. Even so, he continues to do badly by me.

Questions about done by

What is done by the past participle of?
Done by is the past participle of do by.

Words near done by in the dictionary

  1. done battle
  2. done bird
  3. done bits
  4. done brown
  5. done business
  6. done by
  7. done by half-measures
  8. done by halves
  9. done cartwheels
  10. done cheetah flips
  11. done credit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: done by (page history and authors); do by (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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