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DEPART

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move away from a place into another direction

Example:

The train departs at noon

Synonyms:

depart; go; go away

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "depart" is one way to...):

exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "depart"):

blow; shove along; shove off (leave; informal or rude)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

departer (someone who leaves)

departure (the act of departing)

departure (euphemistic expressions for death)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Go away or leave

Synonyms:

depart; quit; take leave

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "depart" is one way to...):

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "depart"):

walk out of (leave, usually as an expression of disapproval)

congee (depart after obtaining formal permission)

beat a retreat (depart hastily)

plump out (depart suddenly)

break camp; decamp (leave a camp)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Antonym:

stay (remain behind)

Derivation:

departer (someone who leaves)

departure (the act of departing)

departure (euphemistic expressions for death)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Leave

Example:

The family took off for Florida

Synonyms:

depart; part; set forth; set off; set out; start; start out; take off

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "depart" is one way to...):

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "depart"):

lift off; take off (depart from the ground)

roar off (leave)

blaze; blaze out (move rapidly and as if blazing)

sally forth; sally out (set out in a sudden, energetic or violent manner)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

These cars won't depart

Derivation:

departer (someone who leaves)

departure (the act of departing)

departure (euphemistic expressions for death)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Wander from a direct or straight course

Synonyms:

depart; digress; sidetrack; straggle

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "depart" is one way to...):

deviate; divert (turn aside; turn away from)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Remove oneself from an association with or participation in

Example:

after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes

Synonyms:

depart; leave; pull up stakes

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "depart" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

go away; go forth; leave (go away from a place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "depart"):

leave office; quit; resign; step down (give up or retire from a position)

drop out (leave school or an educational program prematurely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 6

Meaning:

Be at variance with; be out of line with

Synonyms:

depart; deviate; diverge; vary

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "depart" is one way to...):

differ (be different)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "depart"):

aberrate (diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration)

aberrate (diverge from the expected)

belie; contradict; negate (be in contradiction with)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

departure (a variation that deviates from the standard or norm)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The two youths jumped with all their strength to reach the departing galley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Brissenden half rose from his chair as he spoke, as if with the intention of departing to the restaurant forthwith.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With these he departed, but he cared nothing for the gold pieces.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

New Horizons obtained a series of these backlit images as it departed from Pluto on July 14, 2015.

(Pluto’s Haze Varies in Brightness, NASA)

After that, Buzz Aldrin departed the spacecraft and stepped on the moon 19 minutes later.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I understood that language very well, and getting upon my feet, said, “I was a poor Yahoo banished from the Houyhnhnms, and desired they would please to let me depart.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Shrouded in a thick veil and armed with a genteel traveling basket, she departed, feeling that a cool drive would soothe her ruffled spirit and fit her for the labors of the day.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After she had seen him mount his horse and depart, she was about to close the door, but I ran up to her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

At night we could hear from amid the trees the long-drawn cry, as some primitive Ezekiel mourned for fallen greatness and recalled the departed glories of Ape Town.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A portrait—very like—of a departed wife, not valued by the husband!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)