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Defecting vs Departing - What's the difference?

defecting | departing |

As verbs the difference between defecting and departing

is that defecting is while departing is .

As an adjective departing is

that is leaving.

As a noun departing is

the act by which somebody or something departs.

defecting

English

Verb

(head)

    • departing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • that is leaving
    • a departing train
  • while leaving
    • departing words

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody or something departs.
  • * 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
    • But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.

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