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gone  (gôn, gn)

v.

Past participle of go¹.

adj.

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

2. Past; bygone.

3. Advanced beyond hope or recall.

4. Dying or dead.

5. Ruined; lost: a gone cause.

6. Carried away; absorbed.

7. Used up; exhausted.

8. Slang Infatuated: gone on his sweetheart.

9. Slang Pregnant: is five months gone.

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gone [gɒn]

vb

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

gone out Informal blankly and without comprehension, as if stupefied in surprise

adv

past it's gone midnight

Thesaurus

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of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" bygone, bypast, departed, foregone past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"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"

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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.

Translations

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.

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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 go

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gone → راحل pryč væk weg χαμένος desaparecido mennyt parti prošao andato いなくなって 사라진 verdwenen borte miniony ausente прошлый försvunnen จากไป geçmiş đã qua 离去的