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

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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

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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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