wander

Plural: wanders

Verb

Verb Forms: wandered, wandering, wanders

• To move aimlessly without a fixed destination or purpose.
• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
  • "the wandering Jew"
• be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
  • "Might her husband be wandering?"
• go via an indirect route or at no set pace
  • "After dinner, we wandered into town"
• to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
  • "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
• lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
  • "her mind wanders"
• To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
• To stray; stray from one's course; err.
• To commit adultery.
• To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
• Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.

Noun

• An act or instance of wandering.
• Deviation from a correct or normal value.

Examples

• A writer wanders from his subject.
• Sometimes, my eyes wander over the Scrabble board, looking for any possible word.
• to go for a wander in the park
• to wander over the fields

Synonyms

betray, cast, cheat, cheat on, cuckold, digress, divagate, drift, meander, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, thread, tramp, vagabond, weave, wind, distract, err, scatter

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