verb
- to wander or roam beyond proper or usual limits; to digress or stray from a subject
- to escape or flow out from a vessel or proper container, especially of blood or fluid
Usage: archaic or literary; often used in academic or formal contexts
Usage: medical or technical
Examples
- The professor began to extravagate during the lecture, moving from the main topic to tangential historical anecdotes.
- The speaker's tendency to extravagate made it difficult for the audience to follow the central argument.
- In medical contexts, fluids may extravagate from damaged blood vessels into surrounding tissue.
- The author's narrative would often extravagate into lengthy descriptions of minor characters.
- During the discussion, he extravagate into personal stories rather than addressing the core issue.
- The blood extravagate into the surrounding area following the injury.