Brewer's: Done Up

Thoroughly tired and wearied out. Up means ended, completed, as the “game is up” (over, finished), and adverbially it means “completely,” hence to be “done up” is to be exhausted completely.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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