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.

synoniemen: divagate, stray, wander.

Roget 279: alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve etc. 245; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe^†, wear.    intervert^†; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp.    stray, straggle; sidle; diverge etc. 291; tralineate^†; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.    fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle etc. (oscillate) 314; go out of one's way etc. (perform a circuit) 629; lose one's way.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 573: be diffuse etc. adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant.    maunder, prose; harp upon etc. (repeat) 104; dwell on, insist upon.    digress, ramble, battre la campagne [Fr.], beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize^†.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: afwijken, uitwijden, afdwalen

Wander from a direct or straight course.

synoniemen: depart, sidetrack, straggle.