Gone and Held up

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Gone adjective - No longer existing.

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Held up and gone are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Held up" instead an adjective "Gone".

Nearby Words: go, goner, goneness

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Gone and held up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Gone" instead an adjective phrase "Held up".

Turning to the interviewer, he held up his glass and said "You're drinking with number three." Not too long afterwards, he was gone.

Source: Harsher In Hindsight / Real Life
In Gone with the Wind Rhett Butler took a girl out in his carriage without a chaperone and they got held up.

Source: Defiled Forever
Statute of Limitations: One criminal got caught because time spent overseas didn't count towards the statute and his plane was held up at the gate due to inclement weather; another featured a series of murders that happened as the statute expired on a bank robbery gone wrong.

Source: Manga / Detective Conan

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