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depart

[dih-pahrt]

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verb (used without object)

to go away; leave: She departed from Paris today. The train departs at 10:52.

to diverge or deviate (usually followed by from): The new method departs from the old in several respects.

to pass away, as from life or existence; die.

verb (used with object)

to go away from; leave: to depart this life.

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noun

Archaic. departure; death.

Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English departen < Old French departir, equivalent to de- de- + partir to go away; see part (v.)

Related forms

un·de·part·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. Depart, retire, retreat, withdraw imply leaving a place. Depart is a somewhat literary word for going away from a place: to depart on a journey. Retire emphasizes absenting oneself or drawing back from a place: to retire from a position in battle. Retreat implies a necessary withdrawal, especially as a result of adverse fortune in war: to retreat to secondary lines of defense. Withdraw suggests leaving some specific place or situation, usually for some definite and often unpleasant reason: to withdraw from a hopeless task. 4. quit.

Antonyms
1. arrive.

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Editors at some houses have limited authority to depart from house style.

Since then, judges have struggled to decide when they might depart from that broad principle of equal shares.

But researchers wanted to know why sons sometimes stay home over the winter and sometimes depart.

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Editors at some houses have limited authority to depart from house style.

Since then, judges have struggled to decide when they might depart from that broad principle of equal shares.

But researchers wanted to know why sons sometimes stay home over the winter and sometimes depart.

So along come the punctuated equilibrium postulates which deepen the mire because you completely depart from long term evolvement.

German trains depart exactly on the scheduled minute, not a minute later.

It's easy to poke fun at professors who depart from scholarly writing to tell the stories of their lives.

The prime anxiety is that the occupiers will depart too soon, leaving chaos in their wake.

Make sure you have the phone numbers before you depart.

Bugs arrive at the plant, find it a poor home, and quickly depart.

Army helicopters depart and land in front of the administration building, the wind from their rotors whipping the flaps of tents.

Each portrait had to depart utterly from the last, a surprise even to him.

Those already completed resembled silver spaceships about to depart.

Departments that are slow to approve temporary leaves run the risk of having faculty members depart for good.

People depart from rationality, but they do so in ways that can be predicted-and exploited.

If you book late in the year, you can sometimes pay the current-year price for a trip that's scheduled to depart in the next year.

Such a heavy turnover is wasteful for the firms as well as for the people who depart.

As soon as you depart the dog normally relaxes and normally begins to have fun.

So gently and peacefully did the spirit of the great soldier depart that the sorrowing relatives at his bedside.

These shape differences suggest that connections between brain regions of affected individuals also depart from the norm.

Such an approach would depart from previous vaccine.

While you are free to depart holding hands, it is more likely that your new friend will wish for some discretion on your part.

But he is asking his managers to depart from a well-known and successful path.

The bus they call the new semester is about to depart.

If you don't see your flight in the first place, you can go online and fix the problem before you depart.

Economists are quite certain that people cannot take their money with them when they depart this life.

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depart (dɪˈpɑːt)

—vb
1.	to go away; leave
2.	to start out; set forth
3.	(usually foll by from) to deviate; differ; vary: to depart from normal procedure
4.	(tr) to quit (archaic, except in the phrase depart this life)

[C13: from Old French departir, from de- + partir to go away, divide, from Latin partīrī to divide, distribute, from pars a part]

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Word Origin & History

depart

early 13c., from O.Fr. departir, from L.L. departire "divide" (transitive), from de- "from" + partire "to part, divide," from pars (gen. partis) "a part." As a euphemism for "to die" (to depart this life) it is attested from c.1500. Transitive in Eng. lingers in some senses;

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the wedding service was till death us depart until 1662.

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