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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
depart/dɪˈpɑːt/

▶verb

1 leave, especially in order to start a journey.

2 (depart from) deviate from (an accepted, prescribed, or usual course of action).

– phrases
depart this life archaic die.

– origin ME: from OFr. departir, based on L. dispertire ‘to divide’.

'depart' also found in these Oxford entries:

alternative - decamp - department - diverge - fly - go - leave - light - marching orders - modernism - nick - Nunc Dimittis - passport - powder - push - shoot - skedaddle - stirrup cup - swerve - take - trance - vamoose - walk - wend - withdraw

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