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be⋅gone

[bi-gawn, -gon]
–verb (used without object)
to go away; depart (usually used in the imperative).

Origin:
1325–75; ME; see be (impv.), gone
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be·gone   (bĭ-gôn', -gŏn')   
v.  Used chiefly in the imperative to express an order of dismissal.

[Middle English begone : be, imperative of ben, to be; see be + gone, past participle of gon, to go; see go1.]
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Word Origin & History

begone 
c.1372, contracted from be + gone.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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