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gone viral

gone viral is the past participle of go viral.

Meaning of go viral

Verb

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

  1. To be rapidly and frequently shared, especially through social media, but (with retroactive application to pre-internet occurrences) also via gossip or as a collective response to broadcasting or widespread print circulation.
    • Hundreds of long-forgotten texts that went viral in the 19th century are being discovered by a new collaboration of humanities scholars and computer scientists.2013 November 4, Greg Miller, “Here's How Memes Went Viral — In the 1800s ”, in Wired, retrieved 16 Feb 2022

Questions about gone viral

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

Words near gone viral in the dictionary

  1. gone up
  2. gone up against
  3. gone up for
  4. gone up in flames
  5. gone up in smoke
  6. gone viral
  7. gone walkabout
  8. gone walkies
  9. gone walking
  10. gone way back
  11. gone west

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