Absent and Passed away

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Absent adjective - Not at a certain place.

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Passed away and absent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Passed away" instead an adjective "Absent".

Nearby Words: absence, absented, absently, absenting

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Absent and passed away are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Absent" instead an adjective phrase "Passed away".

The first Film of the Book plays this straight, as his father passed away before the story begins, and both parents are absent in the 2010 opera The Golden Ticket.

Source: Parental Abandonment / Literature
To Absent Friends: At the Reunion, Madison reads off a list of classmates who have passed away, before segueing to other topics.

Source: Film / Veronica Mars
The character Doc Hudson was completely absent in Cars 2 out of respect for his voice actor Paul Newman, who passed away from lung cancer in 2008.

Source: Author Existence Failure

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