DIVAGATE

digress, stray, divagate, wander

(verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; “She always digresses when telling a story”; “her mind wanders”; “Don’t digress when you give a lecture”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

divagate (third-person singular simple present divagates, present participle divagating, simple past and past participle divagated)

(intransitive) To wander about.

(intransitive) To stray from a subject or theme.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

1 June 2025

BACKFIRE

(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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