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third-person singular simple present does in, present participle doing in, simple past did in, past participle done in
(transitive, colloquial) To kill or end. quotations examples
Slasher fans rejoiced—for a couple years anyway, until the boom swiftly faded, done in by the same causes that fell so many other eruptions of a style or genre, of any medium: The host of imitators are never as good as what inspired the affection in the first place.
2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 5 March 2018
(transitive, colloquial) To exhaust, to tire out. examples
(transitive, colloquial) To damage or injure. examples