DEPART

go, go away, depart

(verb) move away from a place into another direction; “Go away before I start to cry”; “The train departs at noon”

depart, take leave, quit

(verb) go away or leave

depart, part, start, start out, set forth, set off, set out, take off

(verb) leave; “The family took off for Florida”

sidetrack, depart, digress, straggle

(verb) wander from a direct or straight course

leave, depart, pull up stakes

(verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in; “She wants to leave”; “The teenager left home”; “She left her position with the Red Cross”; “He left the Senate after two terms”; “after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes”

deviate, vary, diverge, depart

(verb) be at variance with; be out of line with

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

depart (third-person singular simple present departs, present participle departing, simple past and past participle departed)

(intransitive) To leave.

(intransitive) To set out on a journey.

(intransitive) To die.

(intransitive, figurative) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.

(intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.

(transitive) To go away from; to leave.

(obsolete, transitive) To divide up; to distribute, share.

(obsolete, transitive) To separate, part.

Usage notes

The past participle, departed, unlike that of the majority of English verbs, has an active, rather than a passive sense when used adjectivally

not even a legible inscription to record its departed greatness (Charles Dickens, American Notes, Chapter 8,)

As soon as they had left, Mrs. Gibson began her usual comments on the departed visitors. (Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 16,)

the sky still clung to and retained some lingering skirts of light from the departed day (Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 7,)

Synonyms

• (to leave): See Thesaurus:leave

• (to die): See Thesaurus:die

• (to deviate): deviate, digress, diverge, sidetrack, straggle, vary

• (to go away from): leave

Antonyms

• (to leave): arrive, come, stay

• (to die): live

• (to deviate): conform

Noun

depart

(obsolete) Division; separation, as of compound substances.

(obsolete) A going away; departure.

Anagrams

• detrap, drapet, parted, petard, prated, rapted, tarped, traped

Source: Wiktionary


De*part", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Departed; p. pr. & vb. n. Departing.] Etym: [OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F. départir to divide, distribute, se départir to separate one's self, depart; pref. dé- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. pars part. See Part.]

1. To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Shak.

2. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. I will depart to mine own land. Num. x. 30. Ere thou from hence depart. Milton. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. Shak.

3. To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. Madison.

4. To pass away; to perish. The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam. iv. 21.

5. To quit this world; to die. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. Luke ii. 29. To depart with, to resign; to part with. [Obs.] Shak.

De*part", v. t.

1. To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] Till death departed them, this life they lead. Chaucer.

2. To divide in order to share; to apportion. [Obs.] And here is gold, and that full great plentee, That shall departed been among us three. Chaucer.

3. To leave; to depart from. "He departed this life." Addison. "Ere I depart his house." Shak.

De*part", n. Etym: [Cf. F. départ, fr. départir.]

1. Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. [Obs.] The chymists have a liquor called water of depart. Bacon.

2. A going away; departure; hence, death. [Obs.] At my depart for France. Shak. Your loss and his depart. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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