| Digress 1. (v. i.) To deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. 2. (v. i.) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. 3. (n.) Digression. Thesaurus Entries bear off, bend, branch off, bypass, change the bearing, curve, depart, depart from, detour, deviate, divagate, divaricate, diverge, drift, excurse, get sidetracked, go around, go astray, go round about, heel, make a detour, maunder, ramble, roam, sheer, shift, stray, swerve, tack, trend, turn, turn aside, vary, veer, wander |