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gone through the mill

gone through the mill is the past participle of go through the mill.

Meaning of go through the mill

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang) To go through bankruptcy.
    • All know the high estimation debtors held the Act 1861, by the number who went "through the mill" at the close of 1869.1877, The Accountant, volume 3, page 3

Questions about gone through the mill

What is gone through the mill the past participle of?
Gone through the mill is the past participle of go through the mill.

Words near gone through the mill in the dictionary

  1. gone through fire and water
  2. gone through hell
  3. gone through hoops
  4. gone through the attitudes
  5. gone through the gears
  6. gone through the mill
  7. gone through the motions
  8. gone through the trouble
  9. gone through with
  10. gone to
  11. gone to bat

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