Need another word that means the same as “depart”? Find 42 synonyms and 30 related words for “depart” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Depart” are: go, go away, leave, pull up stakes, digress, sidetrack, straggle, quit, take leave, part, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off, deviate, diverge, vary, go off, take one's leave, take oneself off, withdraw, absent oneself, say one's goodbyes, make an exit, exit, break camp, decamp, retreat, beat a retreat, retire, drift, stray, slew, veer, swerve, turn away, turn aside, branch off, differ, be different
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “depart” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| absent oneself | Go away or leave. |
| be different | Have an existence, be extant. |
| beat a retreat | Move with a flapping motion. |
| branch off | Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures. |
| break camp | Happen. |
| decamp | Leave a place suddenly or secretly. The hikers decamped before dawn. |
| deviate | Cause to turn away from a previous or expected course. The river was deviated to prevent flooding. |
| differ | Be different. He differed from his contemporaries in ethical matters. |
| digress | Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking. Don t digress when you give a lecture. |
| diverge | Be at variance with; be out of line with. The coverage by the columnists diverged from that in the main news stories. |
| drift | (of a person or their attention) digress or stray to another subject. Drift the boats downstream. |
| exit | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. Organizations which do not have freedom to exit from unprofitable markets. |
| go | Go through in search of something search through someone s belongings in an unauthorized way. Ready steady go. |
| go away | Be abolished or discarded. |
| go off | Make a certain noise or sound. |
| leave | Go and leave behind either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness. Leave your name and address here. |
| make an exit | Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally. |
| part | Come apart. At that moment the mist parted. |
| pull up stakes | Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover. |
| quit | Resign from (a job. Hippies finally quit two sites in Hampshire last night. |
| retire | Make someone retire. She finally retired that old coat. |
| retreat | Make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity. The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer. |
| say one's goodbyes | Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way. |
| set forth | Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard. |
| set off | Fix conclusively or authoritatively. |
| set out | Become gelatinous. |
| sidetrack | Divert (a well or borehole) to reach a productive deposit or to avoid an obstruction. The train is sidetracked on to a line leading to a terminal. |
| slew | Of an electronic device undergo slewing. He slewed the aircraft round before it settled on the runway. |
| start | Give a signal to competitors to start in a race. I start my day with a good breakfast. |
| start out | Begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job. |
| straggle | (of an irregular group of people) move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front. The children straggled behind them. |
| stray | (of the eyes or a hand) move idly or casually. Men who stray are seen as more exciting and desirable. |
| swerve | Change or cause to change direction abruptly. A lorry swerved across her path. |
| take leave | Assume, as of positions or roles. |
| take off | Carry out. |
| take one's leave | Engage for service under a term of contract. |
| take oneself off | Admit into a group or community. |
| turn aside | Channel one’s attention, interest, thought, or attention toward or away from something. |
| turn away | Have recourse to or make an appeal or request for help or information to. |
| vary | Change from one condition, form, or state to another. His moods vary depending on the weather. |
| veer | Suddenly change an opinion, subject, type of behaviour, etc. The conversation eventually veered away from theatrical things. |
| withdraw | Withdraw from active participation. It put me off taking the Pill my partner now withdraws. |
| abroad | In different directions; over a wide area. There is a new buccaneering spirit abroad. |
| abscission | The act of cutting something off. Abscission layer. |
| abscond | Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along. The accountant absconded with the cash from the safe. |
| absence | The state of being absent. He visited during my absence. |
| airport | Relating to or denoting light popular fiction such as is offered for sale to travellers in airports. An airport thriller. |
| astray | Away from the correct path or direction. He was led astray by boozy colleagues. |
| away | Out of the way especially away from one s thoughts. Marie felt her distress ebbing away. |
| barbarian | Relating to ancient barbarians. You arrogant barbarian. |
| bereavement | State of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one. The family suffered a sad bereavement. |
| decamp | Leave a place suddenly or secretly. Now he has decamped to Hollywood. |
| departure | A deviation from an accepted, prescribed, or usual course of action. The album is not a radical departure from the band s previous work. |
| egress | A way out. They d egress the area by heading south west. |
| embark | Go on board a ship or aircraft. She embarked on a new career. |
| emigrate | Leave one’s own country in order to settle permanently in another. Rose s parents emigrated to Australia. |
| exclude | Put out or expel from a place. One cannot exclude the possibility of a fall in house prices. |
| exhale | Expel air. The chimney exhales a thick smoke. |
| exit | The act of going out. Queues of vehicles tried to exit the airfield. |
| far | At, to, or by a great distance (used to indicate the extent to which one thing is distant from another. He had not travelled far. |
| footloose | (of a commercial, industrial, or financial operation) unrestricted in its location or field of operations and able to respond to fluctuations in the market. Americans have always been a footloose people always moving on. |
| go | Go through in search of something search through someone s belongings in an unauthorized way. I heard the buzzer go four times. |
| going | Euphemistic expressions for death. An opportunity to get out while the going is good. |
| immigrant | A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. He s a recent immigrant to the US from Germany. |
| international | Any of several international socialist organizations. Large international hotels. |
| leave | Leave behind unintentionally. Leave the flowers that you see in the park behind. |
| leaving | The act of departing. |
| out | Outside or external. They would be out on bail in no time. |
| overseas | In a place across an ocean. Overseas markets. |
| start | The act of starting something. It s quite expensive starting from 800 for the most basic model. |
| stray | An animal that has strayed especially a domestic animal. A stray dog. |
| travel | Of a device sufficiently compact for use while travelling. Two proximity switches detect when the valve has reached the end of its travel. |
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