digress
verb
[ dʌɪˈɡrɛs ]
• leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing.
• "I have digressed a little from my original plan"
Similar:
deviate,
go off at a tangent,
diverge,
turn aside,
turn away,
depart,
drift,
stray,
ramble,
wander,
meander,
maunder,
get off the subject,
stray from the subject,
stray from the point,
deviate from the topic,
get sidetracked,
lose the thread,
divagate,
Opposite:
keep/stick to the point,
Origin:
early 16th century: from Latin digress- ‘stepped away’, from the verb digredi, from di- ‘aside’ + gradi ‘to walk’.
