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Gone vs Grone - What's the difference?

gone | grone |

As verbs the difference between gone and grone

is that gone is while grone is .

As an adjective gone

is away, having left.

As a preposition gone

is (british|informal) past, after, later than (a time).

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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    grone

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
  • , passage=Dead is Sansfoy, his vitall paines are past, Though greeved ghost for vengeance deepe do grone : He lives, that shall him pay his dewties last,[*] 440 And guiltie Elfin blood shall sacrifice in hast. }}