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gone (gôn, gän)

intransitive verb, transitive verb

go

adjective

  1. moved away; departed
  2. ruined
  3. lost
  4. dead
  5. faint; weak
  6. used up; consumed
  7. ago; past
  8. ☆ Slang
    1. excellent; first-rate
    2. enraptured or inspired
    3. pregnant

Etymology: ME gon < OE gan

gone Idioms

far gone

  1. in an advanced state of deterioration
  2. nearly dead

gone on

Informal in love with

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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