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Disappear vs Gone - What's the difference?

disappear | gone |

As verbs the difference between disappear and gone

is that disappear is to vanish while gone is past participle of lang=en.

As an adjective gone is

away, having left.

As a preposition gone is

past, after, later than (a time).

disappear

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To vanish.
  • (label) To make vanish.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1973, author=Joseph Heller, chapter=38 Kid Sister
    • , title= Catch 22: A Dramatization , genre=Fiction, publisher=Delacorte Press, passage="Did they disappear' him?" / "I don’t know." / "What will you do if they decide to ' disappear you?"}}
  • (label) To go away; to become lost.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared .}}

    Synonyms

    * (to vanish) dematerialize, vanish

    Antonyms

    * (to vanish) appear

    Related terms

    * disappearance

    Anagrams

    *

    gone

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ywent (obsolete verb form)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * goner

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Away, having left.
    • Are they gone already?
  • (figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
    • Don't both trying to understand what Grandma says, she's gone .
    He won't be going out with us tonight. Now that he's engaged, he's gone .
    Have you seen their revenue numbers? They're gone .
  • No longer existing, having passed.
    • The days of my youth are gone .
  • Used up.
    • I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
  • Dead.
  • (colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings
    • Dude, look at Jack. He's completely gone .
  • (colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
  • (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 491:
    • Six nights gone , your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (British, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
    • You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.

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    Anagrams

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