digress

Verb

Verb Forms: digressed, digressing, digresses

• To stray from the main topic or argument.
• 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"
• wander from a direct or straight course
• 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.

Examples

• Don’t DIGRESS from your goal of a bingo by playing smaller, less strategic words.

Synonyms

depart, divagate, sidetrack, straggle, stray, wander

Related Words

digression, digressive, excursive