Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bygone; past.
- adjective No longer living; dead. synonym: dead.
- noun A dead person, especially one who has died recently.
- noun Dead persons considered as a group; the dead.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Gone; vanished; dead.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun someone who is no longer alive.
- adjective past; -- used of time.
- adjective euphemistic dead.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
depart . - adjective euphemistic
dead - noun euphemistic A
dead person or persons.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dead
- adjective well in the past; former
- noun someone who is no longer alive
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Examples
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That was what he played, and that was why the favourites for the title departed the tournament at an early stage.
A knock-out deal 2011
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That was what he played, and that was why the favourites for the title departed the tournament at an early stage.
A knock-out deal 2011
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Reluctant to surrender to those who want women because its smart institutional design rather than because it's the right thing to do, I wondered what would happen to feminism if we departed from the ethical standpoint.
Hannah Peaker: If Women Ran the World Hannah Peaker 2010
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Reluctant to surrender to those who want women because its smart institutional design rather than because it's the right thing to do, I wondered what would happen to feminism if we departed from the ethical standpoint.
Hannah Peaker: If Women Ran the World Hannah Peaker 2010
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Reluctant to surrender to those who want women because its smart institutional design rather than because it's the right thing to do, I wondered what would happen to feminism if we departed from the ethical standpoint.
Hannah Peaker: If Women Ran the World Hannah Peaker 2010
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Reluctant to surrender to those who want women because its smart institutional design rather than because it's the right thing to do, I wondered what would happen to feminism if we departed from the ethical standpoint.
Hannah Peaker: If Women Ran the World Hannah Peaker 2010
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But then came the “redeemer” governments using a combination of a terrorist violence and state coercion to institute an apartheid system and for a while black elected officials departed from the federal government.
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Reluctant to surrender to those who want women because its smart institutional design rather than because it's the right thing to do, I wondered what would happen to feminism if we departed from the ethical standpoint.
Hannah Peaker: If Women Ran the World Hannah Peaker 2010
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My explorations with this Demonstration quickly departed from the bold graphic nature of the original logo.
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Reluctant to surrender to those who want women because its smart institutional design rather than because it's the right thing to do, I wondered what would happen to feminism if we departed from the ethical standpoint.
Hannah Peaker: If Women Ran the World Hannah Peaker 2010
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