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done for

We are done for if we don't find shelter before the storm hits.

Definition
  1. Adjective (informal):
    • In a hopeless situation; facing certain failure, ruin, or death: Used to describe someone or something that is beyond help or recovery, with no chance of success or survival.
    • Exhausted; completely worn out: Used to describe a state of extreme physical or mental fatigue.
Examples of Usage
  • Adjective: (We will certainly be destroyed or killed.) (I felt utterly exhausted.) (The company will certainly fail or be ruined.)
Advanced Usage
  • "to be done for": The most common structure. It functions as a predicative adjective (following a form of "to be").
  • Can describe objects or abstract concepts as being irreparably broken or finished.
Variants and Related Words
  • Doomed (adj): Likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome. (More formal than "done for").
  • Finished (adj, informal): No longer effective, successful, or able to continue.
  • Goner (n, informal): A person or thing that is doomed or beyond recovery.
Synonyms
  • Ruined: Having been irreparably damaged or destroyed.
  • Doomed: Certain to fail, suffer, or die.
  • Finished: At an end; completely exhausted or defeated.
  • Kaput (informal): Broken and useless; finished.
Related Phrases
  • Dead meat (idiom, informal): In serious trouble; doomed.
  • Gone goose (idiom, informal): Someone or something that is finished or doomed. (As seen in the reference: "we are gone geese").
done for

We are done for if we don't find shelter before the storm hits.

Adjective
  1. doomed to extinction
  2. destroyed or killed
    • we are gone geese

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