Maunder (Verb)
Meaning 1
Wander aimlessly.
Classification
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming.
Examples
- The tourists maundured through the unfamiliar streets of the old city, taking in its rich history and culture.
- After a breakup, she found herself simply maundering around town with no direction or purpose in life.
- The pensioner spent his days maundering in quiet reflection, lost in the memories of his youth.
- The over-30 travelers were prone to maundering on lengthy tangents during the group trip planning sessions.
- Traveling without a plan allowed her to maunder through the beautiful countryside.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
Talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice.
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The elderly man would often mander to himself when he was lost in thought, his words barely audible to those around him.
- She began to mander softly as she rocked gently back and forth in her chair.
- The politician's attempt to mander his way through the difficult question only resulted in further confusion among the press.
- As he drifted off to sleep, he started to mander incoherently, his words a jumbled mix of sense and nonsense.
- The tour guide's tendency to mander forced many in the group to strain their ears to catch what she was saying about the artwork.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Meaning 3
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- She can mauer on about anything for hours at parties, barely letting anyone else speak a word.
- My aunt loves to mander about the neighborhood gossip and never seems to run out of things to say.
- When her friends are away, she starts to mander on her phone about every single detail of her day.
- Someone who feels uncomfortable with silence often tries to fill the gap by simply choosing to mander about pretty much nothing in particular.
- Apparently her mother can mander away for hours on how she used to walk five miles in the snow every morning when she was little.