Depart vs Recede - What's the difference?

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Depart is a related term of recede.

As verbs the difference between depart and recede

is that depart is third-person singular indicative present of while recede is .

As a noun depart

is departure, start.

depart

English

Verb

(en verb)

To leave.

*Shakespeare

*:He which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart .

*2009 , George Monbiot, The Guardian , 7 September:

*:The government maintains that if its regulations are too stiff, British bankers will leave the country. It's true that they have been threatening to depart in droves, but the obvious answer is: "Sod off then."

To set out on a journey.

*:And soo she receyued hym vpon suffysaunt seurte / so alle her hurtes were wel restored of al that she coude complayne / and thenne he departed vnto the Courte of kyne Arthur / and there openly the reed knyghte of the reed laundes putte hym in the mercy of syre Launcelot and syr Gawayne

To die.

*Bible, Luke ii. 29:

*:Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.

To deviate (from).

:His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.

:to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading

*Madison

*:if the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles

To go away from; to leave.

*Bible, 1 Sam. iv. 2:

*:The glory is departed from Israel.

*2009 , The Guardian , Sport Blog, 9 September:

*:The build-up to Saturday's visit of Macedonia and this encounter with the Dutch could be construed as odd in the sense that there seemed a basic acceptance, inevitability even, that Burley would depart office in their immediate aftermath.

(obsolete) To divide up; to distribute, share.

*:and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne.

(obsolete) To separate, part.

Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them.

:(Shakespeare)

Synonyms

* (to leave) duck out, go, go away, leave, part, pull up stakes, start, start out, set forth, split, set off, set out, take off, take leave, quit * (to die) die * (to deviate) deviate, digress, diverge, sidetrack, straggle, vary * (to go away from) leave

Antonyms

* (to leave): arrive, come, stay * (to die): live * (to deviate): conform

Noun

(obsolete) division; separation, as of compound substances

* Francis Bacon

The chymists have a liquor called water of depart .

(obsolete) A going away; departure.

* Shakespeare

At my depart for France.

Anagrams

recede

English

Verb

(reced)

To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

* Dryden

Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from the instituted shore.

* Bentley

All bodies moved circularly endeavour to recede from the center.

To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.

to recede conquered territory

To take back.

Synonyms

* withdraw

Derived terms

* receding

References

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