depart
/di'pɑ:t/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To leave, especially to start a journey: To go away from a place, often at a scheduled time.
- To deviate or diverge: To turn away from or stop following a standard, path, or subject.
- (Formal/Literary) To die: To leave this life.
Examples of Usage
- Verb (To leave):
- The train will depart from platform 3 at noon.
- We are scheduled to depart for Paris tomorrow morning.
- Verb (To deviate):
- The manager warned us not to depart from the agreed procedures.
- His latest book departs significantly from his usual style.
- Verb (To die - formal):
- He departed this life peacefully, surrounded by family.
Advanced Usage
- "to depart from": This is the most common construction when meaning "to deviate from" a norm, plan, or topic.
- The film's plot departs from the original novel in several key ways.
- "to depart this life" / "to depart from life": Formal or literary expressions meaning to die.
Variants and Related Words
- Departure (n): The act of leaving or the fact of leaving.
- Her sudden departure surprised everyone.
- Departed (adj): (Formal) A polite or indirect way to refer to someone who has died.
- We remember our departed friend with great affection.
Synonyms
- Leave: To go away from a place.
- Deviate: To depart from an established course or norm.
- Diverge: To move or extend in different directions from a common point.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Depart from: To leave a place or to stop following a plan, tradition, or subject.
- The speaker departed from his prepared notes to tell a personal story.
- Flights depart from the main terminal.
Related Idioms
- To depart the scene: To leave a place or situation; sometimes used euphemistically for dying.
- After the scandal, the CEO quietly departed the scene.
- To depart from the truth: To say something that is not true; to lie or misrepresent.
- I suspect his account of events departs somewhat from the truth.
Verb
- wander from a direct or straight course
- 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
- go away or leave
- leave
- The family took off for Florida
- be at variance with; be out of line with
- move away from a place into another direction
- Go away before I start to cry
- The train departs at noon