digress

Definition

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.

Etymology

From Latin digressum, past participle of digredi.

Example Sentences

• "Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude."
• "In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term."
• "[…] For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress.)"

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