digress
verb/daɪˈɡɹɛs/
Etymology
From Latin digressum, past participle of digredi.
- derived from digressum
Definitions
To step or turn aside
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.
- Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.
- In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
To turn aside from the right path
To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
- Thy overflow of good converts to bad; And thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
The neighborhood
- antonymrecurturn from the course of argument
- neighbordigression
- neighbordigressive
- neighborexcursive
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for digress. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA