gone
IPA: gˈɔn
adjective
- Away, having left.
- No longer existing, having passed.
- Used up.
- Broken, failed.
- Dead.
- Doomed, done for.
- (colloquial) Not fully aware of one's surroundings, often through intoxication or mental decline.
- (slang) Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
- (informal, US, dated) Excellent, wonderful; crazy.
- (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
- (US) 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.
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Examples of "gone" in Sentences
- Like with domain names, once a desired username is gone … it is gone*.
- When he was gone, the realization that he was *gone* was mind-blowing and devastating.
- Edgar is gone, said the mother, with head half bowed, gone to work in Nashville; he and his father couldnt agree.
- Certain things in me are gone -- _gone_ -- and instead there is a fire -- something driving, tormenting -- which must burn its way out.
- Get you gone, baggage! get you _gone_! "he repeated, with a stamp; for a knock at the hall-door made her instantaneous disappearance indispensable.
- Well, long after the campaign (but still campaigning like another election is tomorrow) and after one quarter of his term gone by, there seems to be a "Surge" in his plan and more rhetoric on "the end" of wars.
- On further inquiry, the man stated that since the cat came _down the tree_, it was a sign that his brother had gone down to hell; but had the cat _gone up the tree_, it would have shown that he had gone up to heaven.
- I am full of suspicion, and, therefore, listen to nothing; I am in a hurry to be gone’.59 We approach the great masters and the great things of the world when they are a little difficult to us in just this spirit: we listen to nothing, we are in a hurry to be gone.
- Coz in a way, i scared my other choices for this year de application in NTU might be successful instead of my first choice and if this happens, i wanna be able to go to the course which i was reserved in NUS. no wont be gone but u would have to reject one of them if both get thru yes. will be gone~ Serious, anyone had this form of experience? no wont be gone but u would have to reject one of them if both get thru Seriously bro?
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