Digress

Verb

 * : 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.
 * : To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.

Synonyms

 * sidetrack

Related terms

 * digression
 * digressive
 * excursive

Adverbs for Digress
irrelevantly; deviously; slightly; politically; fascinatingly; descriptively; boringly; dryly; interminably; illogically.

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, make a detour, maunder, ramble, roam, sheer, shift, stray, swerve, tack, trend, turn, turn aside, vary, veer, wander

Etymology

 * From digressum, past participle of digredi.

Translations

 * Bosnian: zastraniti, odstupiti, skrenuti
 * Bulgarian: отклонявам се
 * Croatian: zastraniti, odstupiti, skrenuti
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: eksyä (aiheesta), poiketa (aiheesta)
 * French: s'écarter, dévier
 * Portuguese: divagar
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: отклоняться, отвлекаться
 * Serbian: застранити, одступити, скренути


 * Romanian:


 * Russian: отступать