(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
When something or someone ~s from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
Our tour ~s from Heathrow Airport on 31 March and returns 16 April...
In the morning Mr McDonald ~ed for Sydney...
The coach ~s Potsdam in the morning.
VERB: V from n, V for n, V n
2.
If you ~ from a traditional, accepted, or agreed way of doing something, you do it in a different or unexpected way.
Why is it in this country that we have ~ed from good educational sense?...
= deviate
VERB: V from n
3.
If someone ~s from a job, they resign from it or leave it. In American English, you can say that someone ~s a job.
Lipton is planning to ~ from the company he founded.
...a number of staff ~ed during his reign as rector of the Royal College of Art...
He ~ed baseball in the ’60s.
VERB: V from n, V, V n