GONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gone mean? 

• GONE (adjective)
  The adjective GONE has 6 senses:

1. destroyed or killed

2. dead

3. well in the past; former

4. stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

5. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted

6. used up or no longer available

  Familiarity information: GONE used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GONE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destroyed or killed

Synonyms:

done for; gone; kaput

Context example:

we are gone geese

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dead

Synonyms:

asleep; at peace; at rest; deceased; departed; gone

Context example:

our dear departed friend

Similar:

dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)

Domain usage:

euphemism (an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Well in the past; former

Synonyms:

bygone; bypast; departed; foregone; gone

Context example:

relics of a departed era

Similar:

past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

Synonyms:

drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped

Context example:

helplessly inebriated

Similar:

bacchanal; bacchanalian; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic (used of riotously drunken merrymaking)

beery (smelling of beer)

besotted; blind drunk; blotto; cockeyed; crocked; fuddled; loaded; pie-eyed; pissed; pixilated; plastered; slopped; sloshed; smashed; soaked; soused; sozzled; squiffy; stiff; tight; wet (very drunk)

potty; tiddly; tipsy (slightly intoxicated)

bibulous; boozy; drunken; sottish (given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol)

doped; drugged; narcotised; narcotized (under the influence of narcotics)

half-seas-over (British informal for 'intoxicated')

high; mellow (slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana))

hopped-up; stoned (under the influence of narcotics)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted

Synonyms:

dog-tired; exhausted; fagged; fatigued; gone; played out; spent; washed-out; worn-out; worn out

Context example:

you look worn out

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Used up or no longer available

Context example:

if we don't get there early, all the best seats will be gone

Similar:

unavailable (not available or accessible or at hand)

 Context examples 

Something had gone wrong with him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

While the Cassini spacecraft is gone, its enormous collection of data about Saturn – the giant planet, its magnetosphere, rings and moons – will continue to yield new discoveries for decades to come.

(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)

At least some of these early "dead" disk galaxies must have gone through major makeovers.

(Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The suit in which I had travelled was gone, and also my overcoat and rug; I could find no trace of them anywhere.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This parasite may have always infected people in this region but gone misdiagnosed as P. vivax, they write, because molecular typing techniques were not available.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

The fact that you’re able to bring it back at all in this example proves it’s not gone.

(Recalling temporary memories, NIH)

“As far as the ozone hole being gone, we’re looking at 2060 or 2080. And even then there might still be a small hole.”

(First Direct Proof of Ozone Hole Recovery Due to Chemicals Ban, NASA)

It seemed, too, that Mr. and Miss Murdstone had gone out upon a visit in the neighbourhood, and would not return before night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You will need to be tested after treatment to make sure the infection is gone.

(Helicobacter Pylori Infections, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Part of the good ozone layer is gone.

(Ozone, Environmental Protection Agency)