| departure | | |
| n. (act) | 1. departure, going, going away, leaving | the act of departing. |
| ~ human action, human activity, act, deed | something that people do or cause to happen. |
| ~ breaking away | departing hastily. |
| ~ leave-taking, parting, farewell, leave | the act of departing politely.; "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow" |
| ~ french leave | an abrupt and unannounced departure (without saying farewell). |
| ~ disappearance, disappearing | the act of leaving secretly or without explanation. |
| ~ withdrawal | the act of withdrawing.; "the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam" |
| ~ sailing | the departure of a vessel from a port. |
| ~ boarding, embarkation, embarkment | the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft. |
| ~ exit | the act of going out. |
| ~ dispatch, shipment, despatch | the act of sending off something. |
| ~ takeoff | a departure; especially of airplanes. |
| n. (event) | 2. departure, deviation, difference, divergence | a variation that deviates from the standard or norm.; "the deviation from the mean" |
| ~ variation, fluctuation | an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change. |
| ~ variance, variant, discrepancy | an event that departs from expectations. |
| ~ driftage | the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting. |
| ~ flection, flexion, inflection | deviation from a straight or normal course. |
| n. (event) | 3. departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, passing, release | euphemistic expressions for death.; "thousands mourned his passing" |
| ~ euphemism | an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh. |
| ~ death, decease, expiry | the event of dying or departure from life.; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren" |
| go away | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. depart, go, go away | move away from a place into another direction.; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon" |
| ~ shove along, shove off, blow | leave; informal or rude.; "shove off!"; "The children shoved along"; "Blow now!" |
| ~ exit, get out, go out, leave | move out of or depart from.; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country" |
| v. (motion) | 2. go away, go forth, leave | go away from a place.; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" |
| ~ go out | leave the house to go somewhere.; "We never went out when our children were small" |
| ~ desert | leave behind.; "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period" |
| ~ take leave, quit, depart | go away or leave. |
| ~ pop off | leave quickly. |
| ~ walk away, walk off | go away from.; "The actor walked off before he got his cue"; "I got annoyed and just walked off" |
| ~ hightail | leave as fast as possible.; "We hightailed it when we saw the police walking in" |
| ~ walk out | leave abruptly, often in protest or anger.; "The customer that was not served walked out" |
| ~ come away | leave in a certain condition.; "She came away angry" |
| ~ vamoose, decamp, skip | leave suddenly.; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town" |
| ~ bugger off, buzz off, scram, fuck off, get | leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form.; "Scram!" |
| ~ beetle off, bolt out, run off, run out, bolt | leave suddenly and as if in a hurry.; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out" |
| ~ ride away, ride off | ride away on a horse, for example. |
| ~ go out | take the field.; "The soldiers went out on missions" |
| ~ tarry, linger | leave slowly and hesitantly. |
| ~ take off, set forth, set off, start out, depart, part, set out, start | leave.; "The family took off for Florida" |
| ~ pull out, get out | move out or away.; "The troops pulled out after the cease-fire" |
| ~ exit, get out, go out, leave | move out of or depart from.; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country" |
| ~ rush away, rush off | depart in a hurry. |
| ~ fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail, run, bunk, break away, escape | flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" |
| ~ slip away, sneak away, sneak off, sneak out, steal away | leave furtively and stealthily.; "The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard" |
| ~ vacate, abandon, empty | leave behind empty; move out of.; "You must vacate your office by tonight" |
| ~ pull up stakes, depart, leave | remove oneself from an association with or participation in.; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes" |
| v. (perception) | 3. disappear, go away, vanish | become invisible or unnoticeable.; "The effect vanished when day broke" |
| ~ dematerialise, dematerialize | become immaterial; disappear. |
| ~ clear | go away or disappear.; "The fog cleared in the afternoon" |
| ~ bob under | disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water. |
| ~ end, cease, terminate, finish, stop | have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
| v. (change) | 4. disappear, go away, vanish | get lost, as without warning or explanation.; "He disappeared without a trace" |
| ~ fall away, fall off | diminish in size or intensity. |
| ~ fall | go as if by falling.; "Grief fell from our hearts" |
| ~ die | disappear or come to an end.; "Their anger died"; "My secret will die with me!" |
| ~ go | be abolished or discarded.; "These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge" |
| ~ absent, remove | go away or leave.; "He absented himself" |
| ~ blow over, evanesce, fleet, fade, pass off, pass | disappear gradually.; "The pain eventually passed off" |
| ~ fade, wither | lose freshness, vigor, or vitality.; "Her bloom was fading" |
| ~ skip town, take a powder | disappear without notifying anyone (idiom). |
| ~ die off, die out | become extinct.; "Dinosaurs died out" |
| ~ desorb | go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed. |
| scram | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. bugger off, buzz off, fuck off, get, scram | leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form.; "Scram!" |
| ~ go forth, leave, go away | go away from a place.; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" |
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