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DIVAGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divagate mean? 

DIVAGATE (verb)
  The verb DIVAGATE has 1 sense:

1. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speakingplay

  Familiarity information: DIVAGATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DIVAGATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they divagate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it divagates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: divagated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: divagated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: divagating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

digress; divagate; stray; wander

Context example:

Don't digress when you give a lecture

Hypernyms (to "divagate" is one way to...):

tell (let something be known)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

divagation (a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern))

divagation (a message that departs from the main subject)


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