part
/pɑɹt/ verb B2- To leave the company of (each other, or someone/something [with with or from]).
- To divide in two. · to part the curtains
- To cut hair with a parting.
- To be divided in two or separated. · A rope parts. His hair parts in the middle.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion. · to part gold from silver
- To leave (an IRC channel).
He/she/it parts · Past parted · Past participle parted · -ing form parting
Verb forms
- Base form
- part
- He/she/it
- parts
- Past
- parted
- Past participle
- parted
- -ing form
- parting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“For my part, dear mother,” interposed Renée, “I trust your wishes will not prosper, and that Providence will only permit petty offenders, poor debtors, and miserable cheats to fall into M.
And although the entertainment was fixed for twelve o’clock, an hour previous to that time the balcony was filled with impatient and expectant guests, consisting of the favored part of the crew of the Pharaon, and other personal friends of the bridegroom, the whole of whom had arrayed themselves in their choicest costumes, in order to do greater honor to the occasion.
“For my own part,” she rejoined, “I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her.
These she also led to rooms, and each one of them found himself lodged in a very pleasant part of the Palace.
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