Departed vs Arrived - What's the difference?
departed | arrived |
(depart)
(euphemistic) dead
(euphemistic) A dead person or persons.
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(arrive)
(copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
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To obtain a level of success or fame.
* 2002 , Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)
To come; said of time.
To happen or occur.
* Waller
(archaic) To reach; to come to.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To bring to shore.
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between departed and arrived
is that departed is (depart) while arrived is (arrive).As an adjective departed
is (euphemistic) dead.As a noun departed
is (euphemistic) a dead person or persons.departed
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Usage notes
Departed'' is most commonly used in a religious setting or at a funeral. ''Deceased is commonly used in legal and journalistic settings.Anagrams
*arrived
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- Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
- The time has arrived for us to depart.
- Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .
- Ere he arrive the happy isle.
- Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
- Arrive at last the blessed goal.
- and made the sea-trod ship arrive them
