Verb

(en verb)

(label) To vanish.

(label) To make vanish.

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, title= Catch 22: A Dramatization , genre=Fiction, publisher=Delacorte Press, passage="Did they disappear' him?" / "I don’t know." / "What will you do if they decide to ' disappear you?"}}

(label) To go away; to become lost.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared .}}

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.

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*: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.

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*: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.

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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)