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digress

verb

1 digress

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.
— Don't digress when you give a lecture.

synonyms: divagate, stray, wander.

Roget 279: alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve etc. 245; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe, wear.    ... show more

Roget 573: be diffuse etc. adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant.    ... show more

Dutch: afwijken, uitwijden, afdwalen

2 digress

Wander from a direct or straight course.

synonyms: depart, sidetrack, straggle.


Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.

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