Departed and Missing

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Departed adjective - No longer existing.

Usage example: a few crumbling ruins are all that remain of that departed civilization

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Missing and departed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Missing" instead an adjective "Departed".

Nearby Words: departure, department, departing

Missing adjective - Not present or in evidence.

Usage example: any sense of how real people talk and act is missing from this novel

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Departed and missing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Departed" instead an adjective "Missing".

Nearby Words: miss, mission, missed

One of his secret messages is even "The missing aren't missing, they're only departed."

Source: Released to Elsewhere
Otherwise, he had 750 employees to take care of and too bad about Brit missing his departed mother.

Source: Film / The Green Hornet
After all, "the missing aren't missing, they're only departed."

Source: Adult Fear / Literature

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