Crossword clues for wandered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wander \Wan"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wandered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wandering.] [OE. wandren, wandrien, AS. wandrian; akin to G. wandern to wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See Wind to turn.]
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To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
--Heb. xi. 37.He wandereth abroad for bread.
--Job xv. 23. -
To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
When God caused me to wander from my father's house.
--Gen. xx. 1 -
O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
--Ps. cxix. 10.3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
Syn: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err; swerve; deviate; depart.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: wander)
Usage examples of "wandered".
Lizzie who sat patiently on a stile, holding the bunch of green-veined snow-drops and yellow aconites she had gathered as they wandered.
Months he had wandered about the gates of the Bonnet, wondering, sighing, knocking at them, and getting neither admittance nor answer.
Bees wandered among the heliotrope and verbena and pots of sapphire agapanthus, and even that shady place felt the hot breath of the summer noon.
Silverbugs still wandered about aimlessly, clogging the floor, making it difficult to move fast over the already-unsure footing.
Unable to stay, unable to go, Alan wandered away from his place of employment.
Impatient to get back to Seregil, Alec wandered restlessly around the room.
Left to himself that afternoon, Alec wandered out into the gardens again.
Kari was doing her end-of-the-week mending by the kitchen window when Alec wandered in with his bow.
While Seregil finished dressing, he wandered out onto the bedroom balcony to watch Alec at his morning shooting in the garden.
Frenchman, Pierre Rostafel, who wandered unsteadily up and down the quadrangle, his torch of alfa grass ready in his hand.
She watched the two Amar stirring the gravel a minute more, then wandered about a large pile of rock to stand beside the hot spring, watching purple bubbles pop and pale purple mists glide across the seething water.
While you wandered with the manling Johan, we searched our hearts and beseeched Terrent Amese for an answer.
He wandered up the aisles and activated the homely presence of the woman who served the dozen or so anachronistic places that were still scattered around Paris.
A servant watched in befuddlement as they wandered past, the Animist carrying on a one-sided conversation with the rat in his hands.
They wandered round the small square and she bought postcards and obediently drank Mad- ron ho, distilled from arbutus berries.