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gone home

gone home is the past participle 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 gone home

What is gone home the past participle of?
Gone home is the past participle of go home.

Words near gone home in the dictionary

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

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