Usually means: Stray from the main subject.
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  1. digress: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. digress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. digress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. digress: Collins English Dictionary
  5. digress: Vocabulary.com
  6. Digress, digress: Wordnik
  7. digress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. digress: Wiktionary
  9. digress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. digress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. digress: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Digress, digress: Dictionary.com
  13. digress: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Digress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Digress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. digress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. digress: Rhymezone
  18. digress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. digress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. digress: Free Dictionary
  21. digress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. digress: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. digress: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. digress: Legal dictionary

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  1. digress: Encyclopedia

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  1. digress: Idioms

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  1. digress: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.

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