go home

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go home

Rhymes with -əʊm

verb goes home · going home · went home · gone home

  1. euphemistic To die. Louis went home at around 2:30 yesterday.

    Similar: pass away, pass, cross over, go to be with the Lord

  2. euphemistic To be eliminated in a competition. Hellriegel's program tells him who is receiving a lot of votes (long periods of busy signals) and who is not (easy to ring through), and the website tells viewers who is most likely to go home – rather than who is most likely to stay.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, home. To return to one's house. Your mother called. She wants you to go home at 10:00.

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verb return to one's house

日本語帰る kaeru
中文回家 huíjiā
Portuguêsir embora
Françaisrentrer, regagner ses pénates
Deutschheimkehren
Русскийвернуться домой vernutʹsja domoj, прийти домой prijti domoj

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@misc{go_home_2026,
  title = {go home},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/go%20home},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}