divagate

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To divagate (DYE-vuh-gate) is to stray, wander or ramble and, in speaking, to digress.

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  1. intransitive verb To wander or drift about.
  2. intransitive verb To ramble; digress.

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  • Next, I said my granddaughters 'obsessions "divagate from boys to cell phones to awful music to eating." —  AugustaChronicle.com: Top News and Blogs
  • To divagate (DYE-vuh-gate) is to stray, wander or ramble and, in speaking, to digress. —  AugustaChronicle.com: Top News and Blogs
  • "Sub-divagate" would be more appropriate since by most definitions, a Diva must actually have a modicum of fame or talent. —  HumidCity
  • My rationale for preparing so detailed a schema rests on (a) my proclivity to divagate and lose focus, (2) the high valuation I put on transitions and continuity, and (iii) the importance of strong, clear, explicit thesis sentences for an audience to orient itself. —  Akma
  • Thought can fly as rapidly as the winds, spread out, divagate, and lose itself, without finding anything but water, or perhaps vague America, nameless islands, or some country with red fruits, humming-birds and savages; or the silent twilight of the pole, with its spouting whales; or the great cities lighted by coloured glass, Japan with its porcelain roofs, and China with its sculptured staircases and its pagodas decorated with golden bells Thus does the mind people and animate this infinity, of which it tires so soon, in order that it may appear less vast. —  Over Strand and Field
 

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  1. Late Latin dīvagārī, dīvagāt- : Latin dī-, dis-, apart; see dis- + Latin vagārī, to wander (from vagus, wandering).
 

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