depart fromsomething
phrasal verbwithdepartverb[I]formaluk/dɪˈpɑːt/us/dɪˈpɑːrt/
to be different from theusualorexpectedway of doing orthinkingabout something:
Iseenoreasonfor us todepartfromourusualpractice.
At thispointin thespeech, theministerdepartedfrom hispreparedtext.
Being and appearing different
- a fish out of wateridiom
- anomalously
- another
- anti-conventional
- apple
- be a far cry fromsomethingidiom
- buck
- conflict
- deviate
- differentiate
- diverge
- diversify
- fish
- flow
- polymorphous
- pop
- rebrand
- rebranding
- remove
- setsomething/someoneapart