digressing
present 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.
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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
Examplesofdigressing
digressing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Coupled with the measure of "digressing" (exchange role), this will provide good insight into how formal and structured design reviews are.
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It may be worthdigressingfrom our main subject for a moment at this point.
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Nonetheless, it is worthdigressingto mention that particular aspects of this view of data poverty have been increasingly subject to challenge.
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Of course this would have meantdigressingfrom the paper that had been prepared for the conference, but it might have fuelled a potentially quite explosive debate.
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Younger women who accepted a terminal method, on the other hand, weredigressingfrom traditional roles in their decision to stop childbearing relatively early in life.
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Let us try to consider the matter withoutdigressinginto the entirely different issues of asylum seekers and refugees.
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I offer no apology fordigressingand asking why government exists.
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I may bedigressingslightly but it is an important point.
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He said in his article that the exercise was so important that it was worthdigressingin order to outline it.
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I would not dream ofdigressinginto that or other areas.
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But that isdigressingslightly from the main theme of my argument.
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I beg forgiveness myself fordigressingjust a little from the main report.
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We aredigressingfrom the subject of the debate.
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We aredigressingfrom the main subject.
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After much learned discussion of the gifts,digressinginto astrology, the first part of the tale ends.
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