Meaning & use
Digressed
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Temporarily departed from the main subject in speech or writing.
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The speaker digressed for several minutes before returning to his main argument.
She digressed into a story about her childhood before answering the question.
A note on using this word
"Digressed" is the past tense of "digress," a verb that shares its Latin root with "gradual" and "progress," all built on "gradi," to step.
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