departed
Americanadjective
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deceased; dead.
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gone; past.
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- undeparted adjective
Etymology
Origin of departed
Example Sentences
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In doing so, he departed from established visual traditions and introduced a new way of representing this subject.
From BBC
She began, “Was there any … departed friends or relatives with whom Miss Allen would like to converse?”
From Literature
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An F/A-18 that was being pulled into position was whipsawed by the maneuver and “departed the hangar bay,” the Navy’s incident report said.
Reaching the heavily jungled pole required a helicopter that landed and departed at different spots, to help evade potential threats.
Garden Investments was started by Garden as a family office roughly two years ago, after he departed Trian Fund Management, another activist firm he helped start alongside Nelson Peltz.
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