parted Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb go one's own way; move apart
    part; split; separate.
    • The friends separated after the party
  2. verb discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
    break; break up; separate; split up; part; split.
    • The business partners broke over a tax question
    • The couple separated after 25 years of marriage
    • My friend and I split up
  3. verb leave
    depart; set forth; set off; start out; start; part; set out; take off.
    • The family took off for Florida
  4. verb come apart
    part; divide; separate.
    • The two pieces that we had glued separated
  5. verb force, take, or pull apart
    part; disunite; divide; separate.
    • He separated the fighting children
    • Moses parted the Red Sea
  6. adjective satellite having a margin incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes

WordNet

Part"ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Separated; devided.
  2. Endowed with parts or abilities. Obs. B. Jonson.
  3. (Bot.) Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc. Gray.

Webster 1913