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Gone
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- 1 Away, having left.
"Are they gone already?"
- 2 No longer existing, having passed.
"The days of my youth are gone."
- 3 Used up.
"I'm afraid all the coffee is gone."
- 4 Broken, failed.
"The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?"
- 5 Dead.
"Dust, that a breath could blow aside, yet that was once, like ourselves, animate with hope, passion, and sorrow, is below; around are the vain memorials of human grief and human pride; yet all alike dedicated to the gone."
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- 6 Doomed, done for.
"Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone."
- 7 Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline. colloquial
"Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone."
- 8 Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in). slang
"I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you."
- 9 Excellent, wonderful; crazy. US, dated, informal
"It was a group of real gone cats."
- 10 Ago (used post-positionally). archaic
"Six nights gone, your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock."
- 11 Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness. US
- 12 Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
- 13 Used with a duration to indicate for how long a process has been developing, an action has been performed or a state has persisted; especially, pregnant.
"She’s three months gone"
- 1 dead wordnet
- 2 used up or no longer available wordnet
- 3 destroyed or killed wordnet
- 4 stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) wordnet
- 5 well in the past; former wordnet
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- 6 drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted wordnet
- 1 Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to. alt-of, alternative, contraction
"Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too."
- 1 Past, after, later than (a time). British, informal
"You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock."
- 1 past participle of go form-of, participle, past
Etymology
From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
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