have done

verb, phrase — 2 senses

have done

verb
1

To reach an end.

  • Your turn, I've done talking for now.
  • 1607, Antony Brewer (attributed), Lingua, or the Combat of the Five Senses for Superiority Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

have done

phrase
1

Archaic, Imperative stop! cease! desist!

  • But John cut the matter short by saying to him, "Have done; you are my servant, and I intend to take a trip with you." So he gave up, especially as the others told him that there was no remedy.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth:
Derived terms
have done with

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