Gone Definition & Meaning — Word Unscrambler

verb

To move:
(chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
To start; to begin (an action or process).
To take a turn, especially in a game.
To attend.
To proceed:
To follow or travel along (a path):
To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
To lead (to a place); to give access to.
To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
To continuously or habitually be in a state.
To come to (a certain condition or state).
To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
To tend (toward a result).
To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
To pass, to be used up:
To die.
To be discarded.
To be lost or out:
To break down or apart:
To be sold.
To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
To have a certain record.
To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
To say (something), to make a sound:
To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
To resort (to).
To apply or subject oneself to:
To fit (in a place, or together with something):
To date.
To attack:
To be in general; to be usually.
To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
To yield or weigh.
To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
To urinate or defecate.

Synonyms: become, change into, turn, cross, draw, drift, fare, move, tread, wend, date, go out (with), see, function, operate, work, make one's move, move, take one’s turn

adjective

Away, having left.
No longer part of the present situation.
No longer existing, having passed.
Used up.
Dead.
Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings.
Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on.
Excellent; wonderful.
Ago (used post-positionally).
Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
Of an arrow: wide of the mark.

preposition

Past, after, later than (a time).

Pronunciation

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