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departure
noun
1 departure
The act of departing.
synonyms: going, going away, leaving.
Roget 287:
recession,
retirement,
withdrawal;
retreat;
retrocession
etc.
283†;
departure,
etc.
293;
recoil
etc.
277;
flight
etc.
(avoidance)
623.
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Roget 623:
abstention,
abstinence;
for bearance†;
refraining
etc.
v.;
inaction
etc.
681;
neutrality.
avoidance,
evasion,
elusion;
seclusion
etc.
893.
avolation†,
flight;
escape
etc.
671;
retreat
etc.
287;
recoil
etc.
277;
departure
etc.
293;
rejection
etc.
610.
shirker
etc.
v.;
truant;
fugitive,
refugee;
runaway,
runagate;
maroon.
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Dutch: afwijking, overlijden, afreis, vertrek
Polish: odjazd
2 departure
A variation that deviates from the standard or norm.
synonyms: deviation, difference, divergence.
Dutch: aberratie, abnormaliteit, afwijken, afwijking, anomalie, deviatie, ecart, swing
Polish: deklinacja, zboczenie
3 departure
Euphemistic expressions for death.
synonyms: exit, expiration, going, loss, passing, release.
Roget 293:
departure,
decession†,
decampment;
embarkation;
outset,
start;
removal;
exit
etc.
(egress)
295;
exodus,
hejira,
flight.
leave taking,
valediction,
adieu,
farewell,
goodbye,
auf wiedersehen [G.],
sayonara,
dosvidanya [Rus.],
ciao,
aloha,
hasta la vista [Sp.];
stirrup cup;
valedictorian.
starting point,
starting post;
point of departure,
point of embarkation,
place of departure,
place of embarkation;
port of embarkation;
airport,
take-off point,
taxiing runway,
runway,
launching pad,
spaceport.
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Roget 360:
death;
decease,
demise;
dissolution,
departure,
obit,
release,
rest,
quietus,
fall;
loss,
bereavement;
mortality,
morbidity.
end of life
etc.
67,
cessation of life
etc.
142,
loss of life,
extinction of life,
ebb of life
etc.
359.
death warrant,
death watch,
death rattle,
death bed;
stroke of death,
agonies of death,
shades of death,
valley of death,
jaws of death,
hand of death;
last breath,
last gasp,
last agonies;
dying day,
dying breath,
dying agonies;
chant du cygne [Fr.];
rigor mortis [Lat.];
Stygian shore.
King of terrors,
King Death;
Death;
doom
etc.
(necessity)
601;
Hell's grim Tyrant"
[Pope].
euthanasia;
break up of the system;
natural death,
natural decay;
sudden death,
violent death;
untimely end,
watery grave;
debt of nature;
suffocation,
asphyxia;
fatal disease
etc.
(disease)
655;
death blow
etc.
(killing)
361.
necrology,
bills of mortality,
obituary;
death song
etc.
(lamentation)
839.
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Roget 449:
disappearance,
evanescence,
eclipse,
occultation.
departure
etc.
293;
exit;
vanishing point;
dissolving views.
Moby thesaurus: AWOL, French leave, aberrancy, aberration, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, annihilation, bane, bend, bias, biological death, blackout, blocking, branching off, bypath, byway, cessation of life, circuitousness, clinical death, contrariety, contrast, corner, crook, crossing the bar, curtains, curve, cut, day off, death, death knell, debt of nature, decampment, decease, declination, default, deflection, dematerialization, demise, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, difference, digression, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disappearance, disappearing, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, discursion, disparity, dispersion, dissent, dissimilarity, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversion, diversity, dogleg, doom, double, drift, drifting, dying, ebb of life, eclipse, egress, egression, elimination, end, end of life, ending, episode, erasure, errantry, escape, eternal rest, evanescence, evaporation, excursion, excursus, excused absence, exit, exodus, exorbitation, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, extraction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, far cry, farewell, final summons, finger of death, fleeing, flight, forthcoming, furlough, going, going off, going out, grave, hairpin, hand of death, heterogeneity, holiday, hooky, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, indirection, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, jaws of death, knell, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leave, leave of absence, leave-taking, leaving, leaving life, loss of life, making an end, melting, mixture, nonappearance, nonattendance, nonconformity, obliquity, occultation, odds, opposition, otherness, outcome, outcoming, outgo, outgoing, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, pererration, perishing, quietus, rambling, release, rest, retreat, reward, running away, sabbatical leave, sentence of death, separateness, shades of death, shadow of death, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sick leave, side path, side road, sidetrack, skew, slant, sleep, somatic death, straying, summons of death, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, truancy, truantism, turn, turning, twist, unconformity, unexcused absence, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, vacation, vanishing, vanishing point, variance, variation, variegation, variety, veer, wandering, warp, wipe, withdrawal, yaw, zigzag ... show more.
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