- Used up or no longer available
"gone with the wind"; "if we don't get there early, all the best seats will be gone"
- Destroyed or killed
"we are gone geese";
- done for [informal], kaput
- Dead
"he is gone";
- asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed
- Well in the past; former
"sweet memories of gone summers";
- bygone, bypast [archaic], departed, foregone
- Extremely exhausted
"After running the marathon, she was completely gone";
- knackered [Brit, informal], drained, zonked [informal], shagged [Brit, informal], zonked out [informal], deadbeat [Brit, informal], shagged out [Brit, informal], stonkered [Brit, Austral, NZ, informal], shattered [Brit, informal], exhausted, dog-tired [informal], fagged [Brit, informal], fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out, shot [informal], pooped [N. Amer, informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], run-down
- Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
"a noisy crowd of gone sailors";
- intoxicated, drunk, inebriated, ripped [informal], inebriate, skunked [informal]
Usage: Brit
Verb: go (went,gone,going,goes) gow
- Change location; proceed; also used metaphorically
"How fast does your new car go?"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect";
- travel, move, locomote
- Follow a procedure or take a course
"We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels";
- proceed, move
- Move away from a place into another direction
"Go away before I start to cry";
- go away, depart
- Enter or assume a certain state or condition
"her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!";
- become, get
- Be awarded; be allotted
"Her money went on clothes"; "The first prize goes to Mary"
- Have a particular form
"as the saying goes …";
- run
- Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
"His knowledge doesn't go very far";
- run, pass, lead, extend
- Follow a certain course
"The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?";
- proceed
- Be abolished or discarded
"These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge"
- Be or continue to be in a certain condition
"The children went hungry that day"
- Make a certain noise or sound
"She went ‘Mmmmm’"; "The gun went ‘bang’";
- sound
- Perform as intended or designed
"The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in";
- function, work, operate, run
- To be spent or finished
"The money went quickly";
- run low, run short
- Progress by being changed
"The speech has to go through several more drafts";
- move, run
- Continue to live and avoid dying
"We went without water and food for 3 days";
- survive, last, live, live on, endure, hold up, hold out
- Pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
"How is it going?"; "The day went well until I got your call"
- Cease to live
"The patient went peacefully";
- die, decease [archaic], perish, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket [informal], cash in one's chips [informal], buy the farm [N. Amer, informal], conk [informal], give up the ghost [informal], drop dead [informal], pop off [informal], croak [informal], snuff it [informal], cash in [informal], cop it [Brit, informal], flatline [informal], pop one's clogs [informal], pass on
- Be in the right place or situation
"Where do these books go?";
- belong
- Be ranked or compare
"This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go"
- Begin or set in motion
"Ready, set, go!"; "I get going at eight in the morning";
- start, get going
- Have a turn; make one's move in a game
"Can I go now?";
- move
- Be contained in
"How many times does 18 go into 54?"
- Be sounded, played, or expressed
"How does this song go again?"
- Fit in well or harmonize
"The modern building was designed to go with the historic architecture of the neighbourhood";
- blend, blend in
- Provide access; extend (in the direction of something)
"This door goes to the basement";
- lead
- Be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
"This piece won't go into the puzzle";
- fit
- Go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
"Who went through my desk drawers?";
- rifle
- Be spent
"All my money went for food and rent"
- Give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
"I'll go with the red one";
- plump
- Stop operating or functioning
"The engine finally went"; "her eyesight went after the accident"; "The engine went bad on the way to town";
- fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out [informal], break, break down, pack up [Brit, informal], give up the ghost [informal]
See also: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, beery, besotted [archaic], bevvied [Brit, informal], bibulous, bladdered [Brit, informal], blind drunk [informal], blitzed [informal], blootered [UK, dialect], blotto [informal], bombed [informal], boozy [informal], carousing, cockeyed [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], dead, destroyed, doped, drugged, drunk, drunken, fried [N. Amer, informal], fuddled [informal], geeked [informal], get on, go with, half-cut [Brit, informal], half-seas-over [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], high [informal], hopped-up, juiced [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], liquored up [N. Amer], lit up [slang], loaded [N. Amer, informal], mellow [informal], merry [informal], mullered [Brit, informal], narcotised [Brit], narcotized, off one's face [Brit, informal], orgiastic, out of it [Brit, informal], overcome, paralytic [Brit, informal], past, pickled [informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], pixillated, plastered [informal], pull ahead, screwed [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], sottish, soused [informal], sozzled [informal], squiffed [informal], squiffy [informal], steaming [informal], stewed [informal], stiff [informal], stinko [informal], stoned [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], swacked [N. Amer, informal], tanked up [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], tiddly [Brit, informal], tight [informal], tipsy, tired, trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], unavailable, wasted [informal], wet [informal], wrecked [Brit, informal]
Type of: accord, act, advance, agree, alter, be, cause to be perceived, cease, change, change state, choose, come about, compare, concord, consort [archaic], continue, disappear, divide, do, end, execute, exist, exit, fall out, finish, fit, fit in, fraction, get out, go along, go away, go on, go out, hap [archaic], happen, harmonise [Brit], harmonize, keep, leave, march on, modify, move, move on, occur, pass, pass off, pass on, perform, pick out, proceed, progress, search, select, sound, stop, take, take place, terminate, transfer, turn, vanish
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