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Straying from subject
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digressing
Word definitions for digressing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Digress \Di*gress"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Digressed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Digressing .] [L. digressus, p. p. of digredi to go apart, to deviate; di- = dis- + gradi to step, walk. See Grade .] To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of digress English)
Usage examples of digressing.
In an abstract way, like a woman digressing momentarily while she prepared her thoughts, she asked, Terisa, what do you consider Orison's greatest internal weakness?
I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter, which I thought might seem more tedious unto the wise than any way else to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain-conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what time they were shewed upon the stage in their graced deformities: nevertheless now to be mixtured in print with such matter of worth, it would prove a great disgrace to so honourable and stately a history.
Hans Maslick was digressing on how to roll fingerprints off severely burned flesh, the best chemical compounds to remove scabbed tissue without singeing the skin below the surface of the print pattern.