Definitions for digress

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digress di·gress

Spelling: [dih-gres, dahy-]

IPA: /dɪˈgrɛs, daɪ-/

Digress is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in digress (degirss).

Definitions for digress

verb (used without object)

1. to deviate or wander away from the main topic or purpose in speaking or writing; depart from the principal line of argument, plot, study, etc.
2. Archaic. to turn aside.

Origin of digress

1520-30; Latin dīgressus, past participle of dīgredī “to go off, depart, digress,” equivalent to dī- di-² + -gredī, combining form of gradī “to go”; cf.

Examples for digress

You will not care to hear about that, though, so I will not digress.

Anthony Despeisses was a lawyer who used frequently to digress.

Let us digress and note the happy return of this man to English soil.

But I digress, enough with the “man who wears two masks” nonsense, as if Banville must justify writing mystery novels.

This is a digression I grant, but I cannot help it; it is the nature of man to digress.

Just here we must digress for a moment to consider the status of bleeding.

I will digress a bit and explain how these stone-quarries were discovered.

But, not to digress, what a "mess" people generally make of holiday presents!

Here we must, for a moment or two, however unwillingly, digress.

Just here let me digress a moment to erect a warning signboard.