Depart

[dɪ'pɑːt] or [dɪ'pɑrt]

Definition

(verb.) go away or leave.

(verb.) leave; 'The family took off for Florida'.

Checker: Mortimer--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) To part; to divide; to separate.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To pass away; to perish.

(v. i.) To quit this world; to die.

(v. t.) To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate.

(v. t.) To divide in order to share; to apportion.

(v. t.) To leave; to depart from.

(n.) Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients.

(n.) A going away; departure; hence, death.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. [1]. Disappear, vanish, go away.[2]. Go, start, set out, set forward, be off, take leave, bid adieu, bid farewell, MAKE TRACKS, take one's departure, make one's exit, take one's self off.[3]. Die, decease, leave the world.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Leave, quit,[See CONTROL_and_GOVERN], decamp, start, sally, retire, withdraw,abandon, remove, vanish

ANT:Stay, cling, remain, come, arrive, alight, {Used_also_for_die}

Checker: Scott

Definition

v.i. to go away: to quit or leave: to die: (obs.) to separate from one another.—v.t. (obs.) to separate divide.—ns. Depart′er; Depart′ing; Depart′ure act of departing: a going away from a place: deviation: the distance in nautical miles made good by a ship due east or west: death.—A new departure a change of purpose or method a new course of procedure.—The departed the deceased.

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