depart

1. (intransitive) To leave.Examples: "[…] he that hath no ſtomacke to this feaſt, Let him depart, […]"; "The glory is departed from Israel."; "With very little excuse for departing so abruptly, Ralph left him, […]"Synonyms: leaveintransitive

2. (intransitive) To set out on a journey.Examples: "And soo she receyued hym vpon suffysaunt seurte / so alle her hurtes were wel restored of al that she coude complayne / and thenne he departed vnto the Courte of kyne Arthur / and there openly the reed knyghte of the reed laundes putte hym in the mercy of syre Launcelot and syr Gawayne"; "Elizabeth saw her friend depart for Port-Breedy, […]"; "Distant acclamations, words of command yelled out, and a roll of drums on the jetty greeted the departing general."intransitive

3. (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.Examples: "[…] his Tongue, Sounds euer after as a ſullen Bell Remembred, knolling a departing Friend."; "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace."; "And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted — "Open then the Door! You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.""Synonyms: dieeuphemisticintransitive

4. (intransitive, figurative) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.Examples: "For youth departs, and pleasure flies, And life consumes away,"; "An extraordinary joie de vivre had come over them all as soon as the shaky feeling departed from their legs."; "[…] then he knew it was Elisha, and his fear departed."figurativelyintransitive

5. (intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.Examples: "His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat."; "to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading"; "1788, James Madison, “Number 39,” in Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, The Federalist, On the New Constitution, Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818, p. 204, If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible."Synonyms: deviate, digress, diverge, sidetrack, straggle, varyintransitive

6. (transitive) To go away from; to leave.Examples: "[...] he [...] did pray them only to do no thing against the honor of God, & rather to depart the territories of his empire, then to suffer their consciences to be forced."; "Then, departing the palace, he [Thomas Becket] asked the king's immediate permission to leave Northampton; [...]"; "At one stage, when I happened to depart the room in the midst of an address by one of the German gentlemen, M. Dupont suddenly rose and followed me out."Synonyms: leavetransitive