departing

adjective

1. 1

   That is leaving.

   a departing train

2. 2

   While leaving.

   departing words

noun

1. 1

   The act by which somebody or something departs.

   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.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of departpresent participle and gerund of depart

Forms

plural

departings