GONE (AWAY) Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

gone (away)

verb

Definition of gone (away)

past participle of go (away)

as in melted (away)

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Verb

Now that raw capability is no longer scarce, the excuse for hiding behind these proxies has quietly disappeared.

— Vikas Verma, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
The show centers on Michael Sleep (Pearce Quigley), who has been living like something of a hermit since his girlfriend Clea disappeared without a trace seven years ago.

— Andrew Webster, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of disappeared

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While most of the deals vanished at midnight, a few are still good, including price cuts on the latest MacBooks, killer productivity PCs, and more.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026
However, in the 7th century, this all vanished; the temples were abandoned and later looted, and Kea never again revived its trade or harbor settlements.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of vanished

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The smallest of these would have evaporated quickly, disappearing from the cosmos long ago.

— Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
Anyone who regularly follows dark matter news knows that past tantalizing anomalies evaporated as more data came in.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of evaporated

Verb

The ultimate ambition is to scour records and surface new stories about people whose lives have faded away over the centuries.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Countless lonely young ones over the years have heard themselves in Team Dresch’s music, which is why their music has never faded away.

— Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of faded

Verb

Though his predecessor dissolved the working group, former Mayor Eric Adams subsequently launched an antisemitism task force and the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 29 Sep. 2026
After becoming prime minister in 2019, Abiy dissolved the former ruling coalition and created a new one that the TPLF declined to join.

— Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026

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