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digress
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb digress has 2 senses
- digress(v = verb.communication) divagate, stray, wander - lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" is one way to tell
- digress(v = verb.motion) depart, sidetrack, straggle - wander from a direct or straight course; Array is one way to deviate, divert
Derived forms noun digression2, noun digression1, adjective digressive2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derived form noun digression3
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
OXFORD DICTIONARY
digress, v.intr. depart from the main subject temporarily in speech or writing.
Derivative
digresser n. digression n. digressive adj. digressively adv. digressiveness n.
Etymology
L digredi digress- (as DI-(2), gradi walk)
THESAURUS
digress
bear off, bend, branch off, bypass, change the bearing, curve, depart, depart from, detour, deviate, divagate, divaricate, diverge, drift, excurse, get sidetracked, go around, go astray, go round about, heel, make a detour, maunder, ramble, roam, sheer, shift, stray, swerve, tack, trend, turn, turn aside, vary, veer, wanderROGET THESAURUS
digress
Diffuseness
VB be diffuse, run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate, launch out, branch out, rant, maunder, prose, harp upon, dwell on, insist upon, digress, ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract, spin out, swell out, draw out, battologize.Deviation
VB alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend, bend, curve, swerve, heel, bear off, gybe, wear, intervert, deflect, divert, divert from its course, put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp, stray, straggle, sidle, diverge, tralineate, digress, wander, wind, twist, meander, veer, tack, divagate, sidetrack, turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from, wheel, steer clear of, ramble, rove, drift, go astray, go adrift, yaw, dodge, step aside, ease off, make way for, shy, fly off at a tangent, glance off, wheel about, face about, turn to the right about, face to the right about, waddle, go out of one's way, lose one's way.
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