departverb [ I ]
uk/dɪˈpɑːt/us/dɪˈpɑːrt/formalB1 to go away or leave, especially on a journey:
The plane departs at 6 a.m.
The bus for Dallas departs from the Greyhound-Trailways Terminal.
More examples
- Trains for Washington depart on the/every half hour.
- The train for Cambridge will depart from platform 9.
- We would like to remind all our guests to leave their keys at reception before they depart.
- The plane departs at 15.00 hrs.
- The train now departing from platform 13 is the 10.35 to Glasgow.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- parting
- piss
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- sally forth idiom
- walk out
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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Idiom(s)
depart this life
Phrasal verb(s)
depart from sth