Definitions
How to pronounce gone:
Gone - as an adjective
Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
Example: "A noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"
Gone - as an adjective satellite
Well in the past; former
Example: "Bygone days"
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
Example: "The day's shopping left her exhausted"
Used up or no longer available
Example: "Gone with the wind"
Gone - as a verb
To move:
(chiefly of a machine) to work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
Example: "The engine just won't go anymore."
To start; to begin (an action or process).
Example: "Get ready, get set, go!"
To take a turn, especially in a game.
Example: "It’s your turn; go."
To attend.
Example: "I go to school at the schoolhouse."
To proceed:
To follow or travel along (a path):
To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
Example: "This property goes all the way to the state line."
To lead (to a place); to give access to.
Example: "Does this road go to fort smith?"
To become. (the adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
Example: "After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight."
To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
To continuously or habitually be in a state.
Example: "I don't want my children to go hungry."
To come to (a certain condition or state).
Example: "They went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock."
To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
Example: "The traffic light went straight from green to red."
To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
Example: "How did your meeting with smith go?"
To tend (toward a result).
Example: "These experiences go to make us stronger."
To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
Example: "Qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter"
To pass, to be used up:
To die.
To be discarded.
Example: "This chair has got to go."
To be lost or out:
To break down or apart:
To be sold.
Example: "Everything must go."
To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
Example: "The award went to steven spielberg."
To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
Example: "Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!"
To have a certain record.
Example: "The team is going five in a row."
To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
To say (something), to make a sound:
To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
Example: "As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic."
To resort (to).
Example: "I'll go to court if i have to."
To apply or subject oneself to:
To fit (in a place, or together with something):
To date.
Example: "He's been going with her for two weeks."
To attack:
To be in general; to be usually.
Example: "As sentences go, this one is pretty boring."
To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
Example: "Let's go halves on this."
To yield or weigh.
Example: "Those babies go five tons apiece."
To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
Example: "I'll go a ten-spot."
To enjoy. (compare go for.)
Example: "I could go a beer right about now."
To urinate or defecate.
Example: "Have you managed to go today, mrs. miggins?"
Gone - as a preposition
Past, after, later than (a time).
Example: "You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock."
Example Sentences
Word Game Points
GONE has a SCRABBLE points total of 5.
GONE has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 7.
GONE has a WORDFEUD points total of 6.