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gone

(gôn, gŏn)

Past participle of go¹.

adj.

a. Being away from a place; absent or having departed.

b. Missing or lost: My watch is gone.

a. No longer in existence; not part of the present: "The biggest catastrophe was the lack of wildlife. The great herds were gone" (Tom Clynes).

b. No longer available; used up: All the rice is gone.

c. No longer alive; dead.

d. Past; bygone: an era long gone.

3. Advanced, as in illness or deterioration: "My poor father was far gone in a decline that took him off" (Robert Louis Stevenson).

4. Ruined; lost: a gone cause.

5. Carried away; absorbed: far gone in speculation.

6. Slang Infatuated: gone on his sweetheart.

7. Slang Pregnant: is five months gone.

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gone

(ɡɒn)

the past participle of go¹

adj (usually postpositive)

1. ended; past

2. lost; ruined (esp in the phrases gone goose or gosling)

3. dead or near to death

4. spent; consumed; used up

5. informal faint or weak

6. informal having been pregnant (for a specified time): six months gone.

7. (usually foll by on) slang in love (with)

8. slang in an exhilarated state, as through music or the use of drugs

9. gone out informal blank and without comprehension, as if stupefied in surprise

adv

past: it's gone midnight.

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gone

(gɔn, gɒn)

v.

1. pp. of go ¹.

adj.

2. departed; left.

3. lost or hopeless.

4. ruined.

5. dead; deceased.

6. past.

7. weak and faint: a gone feeling.

8. used up.

9. Slang.

a. pregnant: two months gone.

b. great; outstanding.

c. exhilarated; inspired.

Idioms:

1. far gone, in an advanced state, as of love, exhaustion, or illness.

2. gone on, Informal. infatuated with; in love with.

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Adj.	1.	gone - destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" done for, kaput colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech destroyed - spoiled or ruined or demolished; "war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind"
	2.	gone - dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" at peace, deceased, departed, at rest, asleep euphemism - an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh dead - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
	3.	gone - well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" bygone, bypast, departed, foregone past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"
	4.	gone - no longer retained; "gone with the wind" lost - no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"

gone

adjective

1. missing, lost, away, vanished, absent, astray He's already been gone four hours!

2. used up, spent, finished, consumed After two years, all her money was gone.

3. past, over, ended, finished, elapsed Those happy times are gone forever.

4. dead, no more, departed, extinct, deceased, defunct The paramedics tried to revive him, but it was too late - he was gone.

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gone

adjective

1. Not present:

absent, away, missing, wanting.

2. No longer in one's possession:

lost, missing.

3. No longer alive:

asleep, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, extinct, late, lifeless.

Idioms: at rest, pushing up daisies.

4. Slang. Affected with intense romantic attraction:

enamored, infatuate, infatuated, smitten.

5. Slang. Carrying a developing fetus within the uterus:

big, enceinte, expectant, expecting, gravid, parturient, pregnant.

Archaic: great.

Idioms: in a family way, with child.

Translations

رَاحِل

pryč

væk

mennyt

otišao

いなくなって

사라진

försvunnen

จากไป

geçmiş

qua đời, mất đi

离去的

gone

[ˈgɒn]

pp of go

adj

(= absent) → absent(e)
While he was gone she had tea with Mr Stevens → Pendant son absence, elle a pris le thé avec M. Stevens.

(= finished)
The days are gone when women worked for half pay → Il est loin le temps où les femmes travaillaient pour un demi-salaire.
The cake is all gone → Il n'y a plus de gâteau.
The food's all gone → Il n'y a plus rien à manger.

(British) (= after)
It was just gone 7 o'clock → Il était sept heures et quelques.

gone

ptp of go

adj pred

(inf: = enthusiastic) to be gone on somebody/something → von jdm/etw (ganz) weg sein (inf); I’m not gone on … → ich bin nicht verrückt auf (+acc) → … (inf)

(inf: = pregnant) she was 6 months gone → sie war im 7. Monat

? far ADV d

prep it’s just gone three → es ist gerade drei Uhr vorbei

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gone

→ رَاحِل pryč væk weg χαμένος desaparecido mennyt parti otišao andato いなくなって 사라진 verdwenen borte miniony ausente отсутствующий försvunnen จากไป geçmiş qua đời, mất đi 离去的

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