deviate implies a turning from a customary or prescribed course.
never deviated from her daily routine
depart suggests a deviation from a traditional or conventional course or type.
occasionally departs from his own guidelines
digress applies to a departing from the subject of one's discourse.
a professor prone to digress
diverge may equal depart but usually suggests a branching of a main path into two or more leading in different directions.
after school their paths diverged
Examples of depart in a Sentence
The group is scheduled to depart tomorrow at 8:00 a.m.
Our flight departs at 6:15 a.m.
The train departed the station on time.
He is departing after 20 years with the company.
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The workers arrived at Seoul’s international airport after departing from Atlanta.—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025 Getty Images What To Know Erika Kirk was seen departing Air Force Two in Phoenix on Thursday accompanied by Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance.—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025 Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's former president, center, points to his ankle monitor after departing meetings at the National Congress in Brasilia, Brazil, on Monday, July, 2025.—Adriana Carranca, Time, 12 Sep. 2025 Every week, 6,000 containers depart from Miami-Dade to the Dominican Republic, and four passenger and seven cargo airlines serve the Dominican Republic from Miami International Airport.—Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for depart
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, to divide, part company, from Anglo-French departir, from de- + partir to divide, from Latin partire, from part-, pars part
: to fail to follow : deviate from a course or standard
rather than sentencing petitioners to a term within the Guideline range, however, the District Court departed downward eight levels—Koon v. United States, 518 U.S. 81 (1996)
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