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departing

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de·part  (d-pärt)
v. de·part·ed, de·part·ing, de·parts
v.intr.
1. To go away; leave.
2. To die.
3. To vary, as from a regular course; deviate: depart from custom. See Synonyms at swerve.
v.tr.
To go away from; leave.

[Middle English departen, from Old French departir, to split, divide : de-, de- + partir, to divide (from Latin partre, from pars, part-, part; see part).]


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She took him to her heart and boasted of him; like one made young herself by the great event, she joyously dressed her pale daughter in her bridal gown, and, with smiles upon her face, she cast rice after the departing carriage.
Departing this life as Admiral of the Fleet on the eve of the Crimean War, Sir Thomas Byam Martin has recorded for us amongst his all too short autobiographical notes these few characteristic words uttered by one young man of the many who must have felt that particular inconvenience of a heroic age.
It would have been trifling with my reputation to allow of his departing with such an impression in my disfavour; in this light, condescension was necessary.
 
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