verb
- to turn aside from the main subject in speaking or writing
Examples
- The professor tends to digress during his lectures.
- I don’t mean to digress, but that reminds me of something.
- She digressed from her main point to tell a funny story.
- Let me not digress from the topic at hand.
- The speaker digressed into personal anecdotes.
- Sorry to digress, but what time is it?
- The author frequently digresses in his novels.