Synonyms for digress

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dih-gres, dahy-

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈgrɛs, daɪ-

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Définition of digress

Origin : 1520s, from Latin digressus, past participle of digredi "to go aside, depart" (see digression), or perhaps a back-formation from digression. Related: Digressed; digressing.

verb stray, deviate

Example sentences :

Anthony Despeisses was a lawyer who used frequently to digress.
Extract from : « The Book-Hunter at Home » by P. B. M. Allan

I will digress a bit and explain how these stone-quarries were discovered.
Extract from : « Ten Books on Architecture » by Vitruvius

Just here let me digress a moment to erect a warning signboard.
Extract from : « How to Cook Husbands » by Elizabeth Strong Worthington

This is a digression I grant, but I cannot help it; it is the nature of man to digress.
Extract from : « Newton Forster » by Captain Frederick Marryat

Let us digress and note the happy return of this man to English soil.
Extract from : « Old Taverns of New York » by William Harrison Bayles

But, not to digress, what a "mess" people generally make of holiday presents!
Extract from : « Ginger-Snaps » by Fanny Fern

Here we must, for a moment or two, however unwillingly, digress.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 434, December, 1851 » by Various

Just here we must digress for a moment to consider the status of bleeding.
Extract from : « An Epitome of the History of Medicine » by Roswell Park

You will not care to hear about that, though, so I will not digress.
Extract from : « A Dreadful Temptation » by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

Perhaps we should digress for a moment to say that there are chemically a number of sugars.
Extract from : « Physiology » by Ernest G. Martin

Antonyms for digress

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