gone (away)

verb

Definition of gone (away)next
past participle of go (away)
as in melted (away)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gone (away)
  1. disappeared
  2. vanished
  3. evaporated
  4. dissolved
Verb
  • Thousands walk out of Syrian prisons as families search desperately for the disappeared.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Megafauna seem to have disappeared around the end of the Pleistocene, after humans’ Asia-to-America migration.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of disappeared
Verb
  • Assad’s regime vanished at a speed few anticipated.
    Guney Yildiz, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement Others ransacked the presidential palace after Assad vanished.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of vanished
Verb
  • Almost $6 trillion evaporated after the dot-com collapse in the early 2000s, and the global economic system crashed when the housing bubble burst in 2008.
    Byrne Hobart, Big Think, 10 Dec. 2024
  • For maybe an eight-minute stretch of that quarter, the Nuggets were making their rotations with tenacity, and a 16-point deficit evaporated.
    Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of evaporated
Verb
  • After a temporary fall from grace when a 2021 Times investigation revealed a lack of diversity in its membership and raised concerns around its ethics and financial practices, the Golden Globes’ original organizing body was dissolved and converted into a for-profit enterprise.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
  • When Jacques Chirac dissolved the parliament, in 1997, Dominique de Villepin was one of the President’s top advisers.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of dissolved
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gone (away)

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“Gone (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gone%20%28away%29. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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