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di·gress
 digress
- pronunciation:
- daI
gres
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intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
digressed, digresses, digressing |
| definition: |
to stray from the main topic; ramble.
The students sometimes find the professor more interesting when he digresses into telling one of his stories.- synonyms:
- divagate, stray
- similar words:
- drift, maunder, meander, ramble, wander
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| related words: |
deviate |
| derivation: |
digressingly (adv.) |
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