gone

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   past participle of go

2. 2

   Away, having left.

   • Are they gone already?
3. 3

   No longer existing, having passed.

   • The days of my youth are gone.
   • All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.
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   1. 4

      Used up.

      • I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
   2. 5

      Broken, failed.

      • The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
      • The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.
   3. 6

      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.
   4. 7

      Doomed, done for.

      • Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
   5. 8

      Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.

      • Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.
      • [S]he put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone[…].
   6. 9

      Infatuated

      Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).

      • I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you.
      • But he was pleased and happy and flattered. She was evidently frightfully gone on him.
   7. 10

      Excellent, wonderful

      Excellent, wonderful; crazy.

      • It was a group of real gone cats.
      • “All right, all right, don’t drop your gold all over the place. I have found the gonest little girl in the world and I am going straight to the Lion’s Den with her tonight.”
      • Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college.
   8. 11

      Ago (used post-positionally).

      • 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.
   9. 12

      Weak

      Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.

   10. 13

       Of an arrow

       Of an arrow: wide of the mark.

   11. 14

       Used with a duration to indicate for how long a process has been developing, an action…

       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
   12. 15

       Past, after, later than (a time).

       • You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
   13. 16

       Alternative spelling of gon /gon'

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

       • 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.

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