gone

Verb

• change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
• follow a procedure or take a course
• move away from a place into another direction
• enter or assume a certain state or condition
• be awarded; be allotted
• have a particular form
• stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
• follow a certain course
• be abolished or discarded
• be or continue to be in a certain condition
• make a certain noise or sound
• perform as expected when applied
• to be spent or finished
  • "The money had gone after a few days"
• progress by being changed
• continue to live through hardship or adversity
• pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
• be in the right place or situation
• be ranked or compare
• begin or set in motion
• have a turn; make one's move in a game
• be contained in
• be sounded, played, or expressed
• blend or harmonize
• lead, extend, or afford access
• be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
• go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
• be spent
• give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
• stop operating or functioning
• past participle of go

Adjective Satellite

• destroyed or killed
  • "we are gone geese"
• dead
• well in the past; former
  • "bygone days"
  • "dreams of foregone times"
  • "sweet memories of gone summers"
• no longer retained
  • "gone with the wind"

Adj

• Away, having left.
• No longer existing, having passed.
• Used up.
• Broken, failed.
• Dead.
• Doomed, done for.
• Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
• Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
• Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
• Ago (used post-positionally).
• Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
• Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
• 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.

Prep

• Past, after, later than (a time).

Contraction

• Alternative spelling of gon /gon': clipping of gonna or going to.

Adjective

• Departed; no longer present or existing.

Examples

• After his impressive play, all hopes of winning were GONE for his opponent.
• All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.
• Are they gone already?
• Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.
• Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
• I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
• It was a group of real gone cats.
• She’s three months gone
• The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
• The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.
• The days of my youth are gone.
• You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

Synonyms

asleep, at peace, at rest, become, belong, blend, blend in, break, break down, buy the farm, bygone, bypast, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, conk out, croak, decease, deceased, depart, departed, die, done for, drop dead, endure, exit, expire, extend, fail, fit, foregone, function, get, get going, give out, give way, give-up the ghost, go, go away, go bad, hold out, hold up, kaput, kick the bucket, last, lead, live, live on, locomote, move, operate, pass, pass away, perish, plump, pop off, proceed, rifle, run, run low, run short, snuff it, sound, start, survive, travel, work

Antonyms

be born, come, malfunction, stay in place, stop

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