digress
verb /daɪˈɡres/
/daɪˈɡres/
[intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they digress | /daɪˈɡres/ /daɪˈɡres/ |
| he / she / it digresses | /daɪˈɡresɪz/ /daɪˈɡresɪz/ |
| past simple digressed | /daɪˈɡrest/ /daɪˈɡrest/ |
| past participle digressed | /daɪˈɡrest/ /daɪˈɡrest/ |
| -ing form digressing | /daɪˈɡresɪŋ/ /daɪˈɡresɪŋ/ |
- to start to talk about something that is not connected with the main point of what you are saying
- To digress for a moment, I would like to remind you that there will be no classes next week.
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Latin digress- ‘stepped away’, from the verb digredi, from di- ‘aside’ + gradi ‘to walk’.