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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
departed
adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the dear departed
▪ Phoney psychics could milk their rich clients for years, charging fancy prices for rap sessions with the dear departed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the film progresses we come to appreciate Ishi's dignity and the courage of his now departed people.
▪ For few of the departed will life afterwards be easy.
▪ For if that departed order can be allowed any saving graces, it was in that area that they might be found.
▪ It was named in honour of our departed hero.
▪ Omagh gave a senior debut to 16-year-old Aidan Coyle, no relation to departed striker Liam.
▪ Receive in tranquillity and peace, Lord, the souls of all your departed servants who have died recently.
▪ Taking the worry out of caring for the departed.
▪ There it is said the ghost of his departed wife pleaded with him to proceed no further.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
departed

departed \departed\ adj.

  1. past; -- used of time; as, departed summers.

    Syn: bygone, bypast, foregone, gone.

  2. dead; as, our dear departed parents. [euphemistic]

    Syn: asleep(predicate), at peace(predicate), at rest(predicate), cold, deceased, gone.

departed

departed \departed\ n. sing. & pl. someone who is no longer alive; as, let us pray for the departed.

Syn: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent.

Wiktionary
departed
  1. (context euphemistic English) dead n. (context euphemistic English) A dead person or persons. v

  2. (en-past of: depart)

WordNet
departed
  1. adj. not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests" [syn: away(p), gone(p), departed(a)]

  2. well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, foregone, gone]

  3. dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, gone]

  4. n. someone who is no longer alive; "I wonder what the dead person would have done" [syn: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent]

Wikipedia
Departed

Departed may refer to:

  • The Departed, a 2006 film directed by Martin Scorsese
  • " Right Here (Departed)", a 2008 song by Brandy

Usage examples of "departed".

CHAPTER 26 They Ride the Mountains Toward Goldburg Five days the Fellowship abode at Whiteness, and or ever they departed Clement waged men-at-arms of the lord of the town, besides servants to look to the beasts amongst the mountains, so that what with one, what with another, they entered the gates of the mountains a goodly company of four score and ten.

Then all the satisfaction she had derived from what she had heard Madame Bourdieu say departed, and she went off furious and ashamed, as if soiled and threatened by all the vague abominations which she had for some time felt around her, without knowing, however, whence came the little chill which made her shudder as with dread.

But, if the political principles of the great man who has now departed were not always reconcilable with the opinions and demands of modern advancement, they were at least consistent in themselves, were never extravagantly pressed, never tyrannically promoted, and never obstinately maintained to the hindrance of the government or the damage of the state.

So he would never have seen that out of the twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty-six starships which had come to Norfolk, twenty-two of them experienced an alarming variety of severe mechanical and electrical malfunctions as they departed for their home planets.

Winterbourne presently released the child, who departed, dragging his alpenstock along the path.

Judge, answering to the said appeal, if it may be called an appeal, says that he, the Judge, has proceeded and did intend to proceed in accordance with the Canonical decrees and the Imperial statutes and laws, and has not departed from the path of either law nor intended so to depart, and has in no way acted or intended to act unjustly towards the appellant, as is manifest from an examination of the alleged grounds for this appeal.

CHAPTER I MANHATTAN MENACE LIKE a crouched monster watching for its prey, the Argyle Museum squatted in its own gloom, surrounded by darkness that was itself a relic of departed years.

Man of the Hill, when our heroe departed, sat himself down on the brow, where, though he had a gun in his hand, he with great patience and unconcern had attended the issue.

The girl quickly obeyed and departed, stepping past Azar as she entered the room.

That very 12th of October orders had been despatched from Rouen to the Bailies and Governors of Normandy to arrest those English who had departed from the company of my Lord, the Earl of Salisbury.

Jessica dawdled until Joseph departed, as he usually did, for the bakehouse, where his younger brother was employed, and the other servants were either in church or on their way to their own Sunday morning diversions.

We correct the phrase, which should read thus: In the year 1512 they departed from Banda toward Malacca, and on the baxos or flats of Lucapinho Francis Serrano was wrecked with his junk, from whence he escaped unto the Isle of Amboina with nine or ten Portugals which were with him, and the Kings of Maluco sent for them.

When Marcus Beld departed from the seventh-floor apartment, it was Jerry who took him downstairs.

Through these trances of mine I have been privileged to put many bereaved ones in communication with their dear departed spirits.

George departed, and Bibbs was left gazing upon chaos and listening to thunder.