Perish vs Depart - What's the difference?
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To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
To die; to cease to live.
* 1719 ,
(obsolete) To cause to perish.
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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:(Shakespeare)
(obsolete) division; separation, as of compound substances
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) A going away; departure.
* Shakespeare
Perish is a related term of depart.
As verbs the difference between perish and depart
is that perish is to pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear while depart is third-person singular indicative present of .As a noun depart is
departure, start.perish
English
Verb
(es)- ...the ship struck upon a sand, and ... the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were immediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* decease, pass away * See alsoDerived terms
* perish the thoughtExternal links
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*depart
English
Verb
(en verb)- Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them.
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) leaveAntonyms
* (to leave): arrive, come, stay * (to die): live * (to deviate): conformNoun
- The chymists have a liquor called water of depart .
- At my depart for France.