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goes home

goes home is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go home.

Meaning of go home

Verb

go home (third-person singular simple present goes home, present participle going home, simple past went home, past participle gone home)

  1. (euphemistic) To die.
    • Louis went home at around 2:30 yesterday.
    Synonyms:
    pass away, pass, cross over, go to be with the Lord
  2. (euphemistic) To be eliminated in a competition.
    • Hellriegel's program tells him who is receiving a lot of votes (long periods of busy signals) and who is not (easy to ring through), and the website tells viewers who is most likely to go home – rather than who is most likely to stay.2009, Sharon Marie Ross, Beyond the Box: Television and the Internet, page 82
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, home. To return to one's house.
    • Your mother called. She wants you to go home at 10:00.

Questions about goes home

What is goes home the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Goes home is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go home.

Words near goes home in the dictionary

  1. goes hang
  2. goes hard
  3. goes hard in the paint
  4. goes haywire
  5. goes Hollywood
  6. goes home
  7. goes horribly right
  8. goes hostile
  9. goes hungry
  10. goes in
  11. goes in at one ear and at out the other

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