gone
/ɡɔn/ adjective A1- Away, having left. · Are they gone already?
- No longer existing, having passed. · The days of my youth are gone.· All hopes for a truce are gone.
- Used up. · I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.· If the milk is all gone, we'll drink our coffee black.
- Broken, failed. · The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?· The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.
- Dead.
- Doomed, done for. · Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
- 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.
- Infatuated; in love (+ on, for, in).
Comparative goner · Superlative gonest
From the library
“After the crows had gone I thought this over, and decided I would try hard to get some brains.
When she had gone several miles she thought she would stop to rest, and so climbed to the top of the fence beside the road and sat down.
I had gone on the quay to match a piece of mulberry cloth, when I met friend Danglars.
“He is now gone into the army,” she added; “but I am afraid he has turned out very wild.”
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