departedadjective
uk/dɪˈpɑː.tɪd/us/dɪˈpɑːr.t̬ɪd/literarydead:
We will always remember our dear departed friends.
used to refer to something that happened in the past and is finished:
The old man talked about the departed triumphs of his youth.
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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In the past
departednoun
uk/dɪˈpɑː.tɪd/us/dɪˈpɑːr.t̬ɪd/the departed formal
a person who has died, or people who have died:
Let us remember the departed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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