Begone
[bɪ'gɒn] or [bɪ'ɡɔn]
Definition
(interj.) Go away; depart; get you gone.
(p. p.) Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone).
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Synonyms and Synonymous
interj. [1]. Depart, go away, haste away, be off, get thee gone.[2]. Away, let us go, let us be off.
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Definition
interj. lit. be gone! be off! get away! In Woe′-begone′ beset with woe we have the pa.p. of A.S. begé„?i> to go round to beset.
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Examples
- Haste--begone--stay not to render thanks! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Begone, vile insect! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Tempter, said Rebecca, begone! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He tore up the letter, flung the fragments at the envoy, and bade him begone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It had been blowing fresh, and it always suited Becky's humour to see the droll woe-begone faces of the people as they emerged from the boat. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Begone, dull Care! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Think of this, De Bracy, and begone to thy charge. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Begone, screamed the infuriated little old woman. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Begone, or let us try our strength in a fight, in which one must fall. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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