depart

Definition

  • verb: to leave a place especially to start a journey
  • verb: to go away
  • usually + 'from'
  • synonyms: withdraw, forsake, abandon

Examples

  • The company's managers don't want to 'depart from' an approach that has worked well in the past. [=they do not want to change their approach]

  • The actors were not allowed to 'depart from' the script. [=they were not allowed to say anything that was not in the script]

  • The river 'departs' [='turns', 'deviates'] 'from' its original course a few miles downstream.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) fired (must be careful (Chivu will not go any place Let me that come here to will not depart throwers shares We Dead very Dead Not yet can not escape now? Yes (..)
    2008 Kung Fu Panda