have done with

English

Verb

have done with (third-person singular simple present has done with, present participle having done with, simple past and past participle had done with)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To finish; to give up or stop dealing with.

   He was happy to finally have done with his thesis.

   Let’s have done with this silly argument.

   • 1904, Jerome K. Jerome, Tommy and Co:

     To cut a long story short, I’m willing to take on the job, provided you really want to have done with it.

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 21:

     Be satisfied that I will not have done with thee until I have taken away thy life, and sent thy soul squealing bodiless into the unknown.

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To end relations with.
   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

     "I am tired," said Miss Havisham. "I want diversion, and I have done with men and women. Play."

   • 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:

     You are an inveterately bad girl, and a false sister, and I have done with you. For ever, I have done with you!

   • 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 63:

     O All the gods save One, Lords of the Worlds, whose child is the eclipse, take back thy pestilence from Sidith, for ye have played the game of the gods too long with the people of Sidith, who would fain have done with the gods.

Synonyms

• (finish): be done with
• (end relations with): be done with

See also

• dead to me
• over and done with