Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Departed
departed, verbal adj. [see depart, v.] (webplay: father, fire, go, God, own, separate, will).
- Detached; distanced by time; lost; absent.
- Gone; perished; separated by death; [fig.] consumed; destroyed; obliterated; reduced to ashes.
- Abandoned; deviated; desisted.
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