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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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" [syn: digress, stray, divagate, wander]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb (-gated; -gating) Etymology: Late Latin divagatus, past participle of divagari, from Latin dis- + vagari to wander — more at vagary Date: 1599 to wander or stray from a course or subject ; diverge, digress • divagation noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. literary stray; digress. Derivatives: divagation n. Etymology: L divagari (as DI-(2), vagari wander)

Moby Thesaurus

angle, angle off, bat around, be absent, bear off, bend, bias, branch off, bum, change the bearing, count ties, crook, curve, daydream, deflect, depart, depart from, detour, deviate, digress, divaricate, diverge, dream, drift, err, excurse, fantasy, flit, gad, gad about, gallivant, go about, go adrift, go astray, go the rounds, go woolgathering, heel, hit the road, hit the trail, hobo, jaunt, knock about, knock around, meander, mooch, moon, muse, nomadize, oblique, peregrinate, pererrate, pipe-dream, prowl, ramble, range, roam, rove, run about, saunter, sheer, shift, skew, slue, snake, stargaze, straggle, stray, stroll, sway, swerve, tack, traipse, tramp, trend, turn, turn aside, twist, twist and turn, vagabond, vagabondize, vary, veer, walk the tracks, wander, wayfare, wind