Etymology From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).
All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.
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All the love in the world can't be gone / All the need to be loved can't be wrong / All the records are playing and my heart keeps saying / "Boogie Wonderland, Wonderland"1979, Earth, Wind & Fire, “Boogie Wonderland”, in I Am:
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Used up.
I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
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Broken, failed.
The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
The car isn't driveable — the steering is gone.
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Dead.
Dust, that a breath could blow aside, yet that was once, like ourselves, animate with hope, passion, and sorrow, is below; around are the vain memorials of human grief and human pride; yet all alike dedicated to the gone.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Marriage”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 221:
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Doomed, done for.
Have you seen the company's revenue? It's through the floor. They're gone.
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Colloquial 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.
[S]he put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone[…].1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 28:
I am, of course, ‘gone’ for you.1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
But he was pleased and happy and flattered. She was evidently frightfully gone on him.1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 35, in Of Human Bondage, Vintage, published 2000:
“All right, all right, don’t drop your gold all over the place. I have found the gonest little girl in the world and I am going straight to the Lion’s Den with her tonight.”1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 11, in On the Road, London: Penguin Books, published 1976, →ISBN, part 1, page 61:
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Dad, I want to be a jock. All a jock needs is some hep patter and a real gone image. Now, they just don't teach that jazz in college.1975, Garry Marshall et al., “Richie's Flip Side”, in Happy Days, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard):
Six nights gone, your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 491:
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.
She’s three months gone
gone
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Etymology From Middle English gon, igon, gan, ȝegan, from Old English gān, ġegān, from Proto-Germanic *gānaz (“gone”), past participle of *gāną (“to go”). Cognate with West Germanic Scots gane (“gone”), West Frisian gien (“gone”), Low German gahn (“gone”), and Dutch gegaan (“gone”).