depart from sth
— phrasal verb with depart uk/dɪˈpɑːt/us/dɪˈpɑːrt/verb [ I ] formal
to be different from the usual or expected way of doing or thinking about something:
I see no reason for us to depart from our usual practice.
At this point in the speech, the minister departed from his prepared text.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Being and appearing different
- another
- be a far cry from sth idiom
- be another matter/thing idiom
- be another/a different kettle of fish idiom
- be far removed from sth idiom
- buck
- conflict
- contrast
- depart
- deviate
- differ
- differentiate
- diverge
- fish
- flow
- rebrand
- rebranding
- remove
- set sth/sb apart
- unbridgeable
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