DIVAGATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they divagate ... he / she / it divagates

Past simple: divagated

Past participle: divagated

-ing form: divagating

Meaning:

Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking

Example:

Don't digress when you give a lecture

Synonyms:

digress; divagate; stray; wander

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "divagate" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

divagation (a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern))

divagation (a message that departs from the main subject)