gone

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Verb

1. past participle of go

Adjective

1. Away, having left.
   • Are they gone already?
2. No longer existing, having passed.
   • The days of my youth are gone.
   • All hopes for a truce are gone.
   • All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.
3. Used up.
   • I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
   • If the milk is all gone, we'll drink our coffee black.
4. Broken, failed.
   • The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
   • The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.
5. Dead.
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.
   • Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.
8. Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
9. Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
   • It was a group of real gone cats.
10. Ago (used post-positionally).
11. Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
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

Preposition

1. Past, after, later than (a time).
   • You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

Contraction

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

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