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come and gone

come and gone is the past participle of come and go.

Meaning of come and go

Verb

come and go (third-person singular simple present comes and goes, present participle coming and going, simple past came and went, past participle come and gone)

  1. To alternately enter and exit, arrive and depart (either physically or figuratively).
    • He comes and goes as he pleases.
  2. (idiomatic) To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.
    • My headaches come and go, but the pain in my neck is constant.
  3. to elapse, pass by; to occur
    • THIRTY years have come and gone, / Melting away like Southern Snows, / Since, in the light of a summer's night, / I went to the garden to seek my Rose.1875, Horatio Alger, Jr, “Rose in the Garden”, in Ballads

Questions about come and gone

What is come and gone the past participle of?
Come and gone is the past participle of come and go.

Words near come and gone in the dictionary

  1. come alive
  2. come aloft
  3. come along
  4. come alongs
  5. come and go
  6. come and gone
  7. come apart
  8. come apart at the seams
  9. come around
  10. come as no surprise
  11. come at

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