Definition of departed

"departed" in the noun sense

1. dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed

someone who is no longer alive

"I wonder what the dead person would have done"

"departed" in the verb sense

1. go, go away, depart

move away from a place into another direction

"Go away before I start to cry"

"The train departs at noon"

2. deviate, vary, diverge, depart

be at variance with be out of line with

3. depart, part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, take off

leave

"The family took off for Florida"

4. depart, take leave, quit

go away or leave

5. leave, depart, pull up stakes

remove oneself from an association with or participation in

"She wants to leave"

"The teenager left home"

"She left her position with the Red Cross"

"He left the Senate after two terms"

"after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"

6. sidetrack, depart, digress, straggle

wander from a direct or straight course

"departed" in the adjective sense

1. bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone

well in the past former

"bygone days"

"dreams of foregone times"

"sweet memories of gone summers"

"relics of a departed era"

2. asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone

dead

"he is deceased"

"our dear departed friend"

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Quotations for departed

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office; and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remember'd tolling a departed friend. [ Shakespeare ]

Dead he is not, but departed - for the artist never dies. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

To our graves we walk In the thick footprints of departed men. [ Alex. Smith ]

Be kind to my remains; and O defend Against your judgment, your departed friend. [ Dryden ]

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house. [ Babcock ]

As the ant does not wend her way to empty barns, so few friends will be found to haunt the place of departed wealth.

Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends - do we not hear them saying to us, Come up hither? [ Wm. Mountford ]

Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter. [ Hartley Coleridge ]

I should have been a French atheist were it not for the recollection of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hand in hers, and make me say, on my bended knees, Our Father who art in heaven! [ John Randolph ]

Necessary or Essential? Necessary signifies not to be departed from, and is a general and an indefinite term. The essential contains that essence or property which cannot be omitted. It is necessary for men to die. Exercise is essential to the preservation of health. There is an essential difference between gold and silver. Here we could not properly use necessary for essential. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

If flowers have souls, said Undine, the bees, whose nurses they are, must seem to them darling children at the breast. I once fancied a paradise for the spirits of departed flowers. They go, answered I, not into paradise, but into a middle state; the souls of lilies enter into maidens' foreheads, those of hyacinths and forget-me-nots dwell in their eyes, and those of roses in their lips. [ Richter ]

departed in Scrabble®

The word departed is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters departed:

DEPARTED
(117)
DEPARTED
(117)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (7 words)

adepter, predate, redated, redtape, retaped, tapered, treaded

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word departed

DEPARTED
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DEPARTED
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DEPARTED
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DEPARTED
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In departed

DEPARTED
(117)
DEPARTED
(117)
RETAPED
(90 = 40 + 50)
PREDATE
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REDTAPE
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PREDATE
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REDATED
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REDTAPE
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PREDATE
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PREDATE
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RETAPED
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REDTAPE
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REDATED
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(68 = 18 + 50)
TREADED
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departed in Words With Friends™

The word departed is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters departed:

ADEPTER
(104 = 69 + 35)
RETAPED
(104 = 69 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (7 words)

adepter, predate, redated, redtape, retaped, tapered, treaded

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word departed

DEPARTED
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DEPARTED
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DEPARTED
(69)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In departed

ADEPTER
(104 = 69 + 35)
RETAPED
(104 = 69 + 35)
PREDATE
(98 = 63 + 35)
REDTAPE
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TAPERED
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REDTAPE
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PREDATE
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ADEPTER
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DEPARTED
(90)
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(90)
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PREDATE
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REDTAPE
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TAPERED
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TREADED
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RETAPED
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ADEPTER
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DEPARTED
(75)
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DEPARTED
(69)
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PEDATE
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PETARD
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Words containing the sequence departed

Words that start with departed (1 word)

Words with departed in them (1 word)

Words that end with departed (2 words)

Word Growth involving departed

Shorter words in departed

ar art part depart

ar par part depart

pa par part depart

ar art part parted

ar par part parted

pa par part parted

Longer words containing departed

undeparted