wander
Verbs
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(v) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- The gypsies roamed the woods
- roving vagabonds
- the wandering Jew
- The cattle roam across the prairie
- the laborers drift from one town to the next
- They rolled from town to town
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(v) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
- She cheats on her husband
- Might her husband be wandering?
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(v) go via an indirect route or at no set pace
- After dinner, we wandered into town
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(v) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- the river winds through the hills
- the path meanders through the vineyards
- sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body
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(v) 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
- her mind wanders
- Don't digress when you give a lecture