digress

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
di‧gress
Pronounced as (IPA)
/daɪˈɡɹɛs/
Etymology

From Latin digressum, past participle of digredi.

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