| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Digress.[Websters]
2. To be unfolded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have swerved, departed, diverged, splayed or sidetracked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be elongated or prolonged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have deflected, shunted or bypassed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be secluded or isolated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have abducted, evacuated or redirected. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be enlarged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have defended, excluded or ignored. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be warped or curved.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb digress.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (digress) | 1. 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".[Wordnet]. 2. Wander from a direct or straight course.[Wordnet]. 3. 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.[Websters]. 4. To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.[Websters]. 5. To wander or derail.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Base verb from the following inflections: digressing, digressed, digresses, digresser, digressers, digressingly and digressedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DIGRESSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Specialty Definition: digress
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Literally, to step or go from the way or road; hence, to depart or wander from the main subject, design or tenor of a discourse, argument or narration; used only of speaking or writing. 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.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (intransitive): 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. (references) | 2: [Verb] (intransitive): To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. (references) | |
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