Divagate (Verb)
Meaning
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".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The professor's tendency to divagate often left his students confused about the main topic of the lecture.
- The author's propensity for digressing made her narrative hard to follow, as she would often divagate into unrelated anecdotes.
- In his argument, he started to divagate from the key points, incorporating irrelevant examples to illustrate his claims.
- Her train of thought started to divagate as the conversation progressed, jumping between unrelated subjects and anecdotes.
- As the speaker struggled to stay on topic, she began to divagate about personal experiences, losing her audience's attention.