Sekirov Dictionary

gone

UK /ɡɒn/US /ɡɔn/

adjective 13
preposition 1
forms 6
phrases 4

adjective13

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Away, having left.
- Are they gone already?
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No longer existing, having passed.
- The days of my youth are gone.
- All hopes for a truce are gone.
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Used up.
- I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
- If the milk is all gone, we'll drink our coffee black.
Dead.
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Broken, failed.
- The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
- The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.
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Doomed, done for.
- Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
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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
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(informal) 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.
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(slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
- I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you. — 1902
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(informal, old-fashioned) Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
- It was a group of real gone cats.
(US) Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
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(no longer used) 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. — 1999

preposition1

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

forms

farther gone · further gone · goner · farthest gone · furthest gone · gonest

Phrases with gone

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