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Verb [English]

IPA: /daɪˈɡɹɛs/, /dɪˈɡɹɛs/ Audio: en-us-digress.ogg , en-au-digress.ogg Forms: digresses [present, singular, third-person], digressing [participle, present], digressed [participle, past], digressed [past]
Rhymes: -ɛs Etymology: From Latin digressum, past participle of digredi. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|digressum}} Latin digressum Head templates: {{en-verb}} digress (third-person singular simple present digresses, present participle digressing, simple past and past participle digressed)
  1. (intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. Tags: intransitive Synonyms (turn from the course of argument): sidetrack Translations (to deviate): շեղվել (šeġvel) (Armenian), отклонявам се (otklonjavam se) (Bulgarian), desviar-se (Catalan), odbíhat (Czech), afdwalen (Dutch), deflankiĝi (Esperanto), eksyä (aiheesta) (Finnish), poiketa (aiheesta) (Finnish), s’écarter (French), dévier (French), digresser (French), abgehen (German), abschweifen (German), ausschweifen (German), elkalandozik (Hungarian), eltér a tárgytól (Hungarian), digresar (Ido), divagare (Italian), kāwekaweka (Maori), odbiegać [imperfective] (Polish), odbiec [perfective] (Polish), divagar (Portuguese), devia (Romanian), отклоня́ться (otklonjátʹsja) (Russian), отвлекаться (otvlekatʹsja) (Russian), rach a thaobh (Scottish Gaelic), застранити [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), одступити [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), скренути [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), zastraniti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), odstupiti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), skrenuti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), kreniti vstran (Slovene), oddaljiti se [perfective] (Slovene), desviarse (Spanish), irse por las ramas (Spanish), digresionar (Spanish), divagar (Spanish)
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  2. (intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. Tags: intransitive Translations (to transgress): շեղվել (šeġvel) (Armenian), ofensa (Romanian), отступа́ть (otstupátʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-digress-en-verb-~-YU6Glk Disambiguation of 'to transgress': 5 95
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: digressingly, redigress Related terms: digression, digressive, excursive

Inflected forms

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        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "digressing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "digressed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "digressed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "digress (third-person singular simple present digresses, present participle digressing, simple past and past participle digressed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "di‧gress"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "digression"
    },
    {
      "word": "digressive"
    },
    {
      "word": "excursive"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 3, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, “In Old Mexico”, Tom Lehrer (music):",
          "text": "[…] For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress.)",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "aside",
          "aside"
        ],
        [
          "deviate",
          "deviate"
        ],
        [
          "swerve",
          "swerve"
        ],
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ],
        [
          "argument",
          "argument"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 5, scene 3]:",
          "text": "Thy overflow of good converts to bad;\nAnd thy abundant goodness shall excuse\nThis deadly blot in thy digressing son.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transgress",
          "transgress"
        ],
        [
          "offend",
          "offend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/daɪˈɡɹɛs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈɡɹɛs/"
    },
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    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/En-au-digress.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛs"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "turn from the course of argument",
      "word": "sidetrack"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "šeġvel",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "շեղվել"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otklonjavam se",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "отклонявам се"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "desviar-se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "odbíhat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "afdwalen"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "deflankiĝi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "eksyä (aiheesta)"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "poiketa (aiheesta)"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "s’écarter"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "dévier"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "digresser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "abgehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "abschweifen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "ausschweifen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "elkalandozik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "eltér a tárgytól"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "digresar"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "divagare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "kāwekaweka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "odbiegać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "odbiec"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "divagar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "devia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otklonjátʹsja",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "отклоня́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otvlekatʹsja",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "отвлекаться"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "rach a thaobh"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "застранити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "одступити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "скренути"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "zastraniti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "odstupiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "skrenuti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "kreniti vstran"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "oddaljiti se"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "desviarse"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "irse por las ramas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "digresionar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to deviate",
      "word": "divagar"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "šeġvel",
      "sense": "to transgress",
      "word": "շեղվել"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to transgress",
      "word": "ofensa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otstupátʹ",
      "sense": "to transgress",
      "word": "отступа́ть"
    }
  ],
  "word": "digress"
}

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