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done over

done over is the past participle of do over.

Meaning of do over

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To cover with; to smear or spread on to.
    • [H]e ſeem'd amaz'd at the Sight of our Bark, having never ſeen any thing of that Kind before, for their Boats are moſt wretched Things, ſuch as I never ſaw before, having no Head or Stern, and being made only of the Skins of Goats, ſewed together with dried Guts of Goats and Sheep and done over...1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC...
  2. (UK, slang, transitive) To beat up.
    • If someone tries to do my guitar, and I don't want it to be done, it's between him and me. I don't call in Bill Wyman to come in and do him over for me, with one of his vicious ankle-twisters or Chinese burns.1971 August 19, Robert Greenfield, quoting Keith Richards, “The Rolling Stone Interview: Keith Richard[s]”, in Rolling Stone, number 89, San Francisco, Calif.: Rolling Stone, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  3. (US, transitive) To repeat; to start over.
  4. (slang, transitive) To rob (someone or a place).
    • Our house got done over last night.

Questions about done over

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

Words near done over in the dictionary

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

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