departing

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

departing

  1. present participle and gerund of depart

Adjective[edit]

departing

  1. that is leaving
    a departing train
  2. while leaving
    departing words

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Noun[edit]

departing (plural departings)

  1. 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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