Dictionary Definition
depart
Verb
1 move away from a place into another direction;
"Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon" [syn:
go, go away] [ant:
come]
3 leave; "The family took off for Florida" [syn:
part, start, start out,
set
forth, set off, set out, take off]
5 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" [syn: leave,
pull
up stakes]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From lang=la, via lang=fro.
Pronunciation
Synonyms
Translations
to leave
to die
to deviate
to go away from
Related terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abandon, abrupt, abscond, absquatulate, alienate, be consumed, be
getting along, be gone, be lost, beat a retreat, beat it, blow, bolt, bow out, buzz off, cast, cast off, cast out, cease, cease to be, cease to
exist, cease to live, change, check out, clear out,
come away, conk, croak, cut adrift, cut and run,
cut off, cut out, decamp,
decease, delete, dematerialize, demise, depart from, depart this
life, desert, deviate, deviate from, die, die away, die out, differ, digress, disagree, disappear, disarticulate, discard, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dispel, disperse, dissent, dissipate, dissociate, dissolve, disunite, divagate, diverge, diverge from, divide, divorce, do a fade-out, duck
out, dwindle, egress, eject, elope, erode, escape, estrange, evanesce, evaporate, excurse, exit, expel, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fall, fall asleep, flee, fly, forsake, fugitate, gang along, get
along, get away, get lost, get off, get on, get out, get
sidetracked, get under way, go, go AWOL, go along, go astray, go
away, go off, go on, go on furlough, go on leave, go out, hide, hit the road, isolate, jump, jump bail, leave, leave no trace, leave the
scene, levant, make an
exit, make off, march off, march out, maunder, melt, melt away, mosey, move away, move off, move
out, part, pass, pass away, pass on, pass out,
pass over, perish, pull
away, pull back, pull out, put off mortality, quit, quit this world, ramble, reject, repudiate, retire, retire from sight, return
to dust, run, run away, run
away from, run away with, run for it, run off, run out, sashay, sashay off, scram, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set
aside, set out, shove off, show the heels, shut off, sink, sink away, skedaddle, skip, skip out, slip away, slip
off, slip out, slip the cable, sneak out, split, stagger along, stand aloof,
stand apart, stand aside, start, step aside, stop breathing,
stray, strike out,
subtract, succumb, suffer an eclipse, take
French leave, take flight, take leave, take to flight, take wing,
throw off, throw out, toddle, toddle along, turn aside,
turn tail, uncouple,
unyoke, up and die, up
and go, vamoose,
vanish, vanish from
sight, vary, walk out,
wander, waste, waste away, wear away, wing
it, withdraw, withdraw
from, yield the ghost