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done out

done out is the past participle of do out.

Meaning of do out

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial, transitive) To decorate, tidy, or clean (a place).
    • After two days' absence, with the easy casuistry of her circumstances, the lady had decided that he was not returning and had proceeded to "do out" the room for the next tenant.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC

Questions about done out

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

Words near done out in the dictionary

  1. done one's thing
  2. done one's utmost
  3. done one's worst
  4. done oneself a mischief
  5. done or died
  6. done out
  7. done out of
  8. done over
  9. done porridge
  10. done right by
  11. done somebody wrong

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Adapted from Wiktionary: done out (page history and authors); do out (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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