digressed
past simple and past participle ofdigress
digress
verb[I]
uk/daɪˈɡres/us/daɪˈɡres/tomoveaway from themainsubjectyou are writing ortalkingabout and to write ortalkabout somethingelse:
But I digress. To get back to what I was saying, thispoemreflectsthe poet'sloveofnatureand hisreligiousbeliefs.
Thelecturertemporarilydigressedfromhersubjecttodealwith arelatedtheory.
Compare
sidetrackverb
Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- bury the ledeidiom
- candy coat
- candy coating
- candy-coated
- circumlocutory
- discursive
- euphemism
- hedge
- implicitly
- indirect
- indirectly
- lede
- mincing
- move offsomething/on (tosomething)
- obfuscation
- obscure
- sanitize
- sidestep
- veil
- wander
Examplesofdigressed
digressed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Each of these images reflects tension between positive and negative forces and recognizes the destructive potential of an entity that hasdigressedfrom the norm.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The last two articles deal with women whodigressedfrom the norms of parochial religion.
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Although physics proper was the focus of his book, the author oftendigressedinto excursions into the history of the ideas.
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I have allowed you a procedural motion in which you have alsodigressedand indulged in name-calling.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I regret that for a time we havedigressedin this regard.
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I havedigressedduring the last two or three minutes.
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I havedigressedslightly from our central concern about the effect on the deutschmark of the reunification process.
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I apologise for havingdigressedin response to interventions.
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I apologise for havingdigressedin this way upon matters which really are irrelevant.
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We havedigressedfor long enough.
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The policeman asked to explain such an odd statement, but she quicklydigressed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The second albumdigressedsignificantly from the nu-metal style of their debut album, developing a darker hard-rock sound, without scratching and hip-hop influences.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Superficially a studio debate, as each episode progressed the subject was oftendigressedfrom heavily.
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