Digressing

verb

verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of digress form-of, gerund, participle, present

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digressiondiscursive

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"My history teacher is awful: he begins talking of a topic, and then he starts digressing, and I think not even he realizes what he had explained."

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