digress

  • 21digress — verb /daɪˈɡrɛs/ a) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. b) To turn aside from the rig …

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  • 22digress — Synonyms and related words: 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… …

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  • 23digress — see GRADUAL …

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  • 24digress — di·gress || daɪ gres v. deviate from the main point (in writing or speaking) …

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  • 25digress — v. n. Wander, deviate or divergence or turn aside from one s main topic …

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  • 26digress — verb I have digressed from the original plan Syn: deviate, go off on a tangent, get off the subject, get sidetracked, lose the thread, turn aside/away, depart, drift, stray, wander …

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  • 27digress — v 1. maunder, descant, be diffuse, be episodic, rhapsodize, wax longwinded, go off on or at a tangent, beat around the bush. 2.(all of writing or speaking) deviate, divagate, deflect, diverge, depart, excurse, run off; veer, straggle, turn aside; …

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  • 28digress — di·gress …

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  • 29digress — [daɪˈgres] verb [I] to start to talk or write about something different from the subject that you were discussing digression [daɪˈgreʃ(ə)n] noun [C/U] …

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  • 30digress — /daɪˈgrɛs / (say duy gres) verb (i) to deviate or wander away from the main purpose in speaking or writing, or from the principal line of argument, study, etc. {Latin dīgressus, past participle, having departed} –digresser, noun …