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Definition of divagate in English: divagateverb ˈdʌɪvəɡeɪtˈdaɪvəˌɡeɪt [no object]literary Stray or digress. 〈诗/文〉偏离；离题 Yeats divagated into Virgil's territory only once 叶芝只有一次偏离到了维吉尔的领域。 Example sentencesExamples - Well, that seemed to be as good a target to divagate towards as any, so he set off for it.
- But here we'll take you on a tour to midmost of Tokyo by divagating the bike path.
- Datta divagates into revolutionary illusions, Indian ‘leftist’ illusions, and its infantile bid for power with violence tactically kept sheatheed.
- Others have divagated at length on the accuracy of these particular statements, and I will leave that task to them.
- Willpower he was not acquainted with, lest he would have divagated from his fated path long ago.
Synonyms swerve, career, skew, swing, sheer, weave, wheel
Derivativesnoun dʌɪvəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n literary Psych influences are revealed in their lyrics: ‘His season in the Zensong there's a tiny smell of divagation, now.’ Example sentencesExamples - It is through just such a divagation, he tells me, that his fictions begin.
- If it sounds all over the place, it is, but because Brakes couch their divagations in directness and simplicity, it all hangs together.
- This divagation into the absurd was merely intended to show what film-criticism has least to fear from.
- The first sentence, with unnecessary sub-clauses and other literary divagations, is less than Orwellian in its intent.
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin divagat- 'wandered about', from the verb divagari, from di- 'widely' + vagari 'wander'. Definition of divagate in US English: divagateverbˈdīvəˌɡātˈdaɪvəˌɡeɪt [no object]literary Stray or digress. 〈诗/文〉偏离；离题 Yeats divagated into Virgil's territory only once 叶芝只有一次偏离到了维吉尔的领域。 Example sentencesExamples - But here we'll take you on a tour to midmost of Tokyo by divagating the bike path.
- Datta divagates into revolutionary illusions, Indian ‘leftist’ illusions, and its infantile bid for power with violence tactically kept sheatheed.
- Willpower he was not acquainted with, lest he would have divagated from his fated path long ago.
- Others have divagated at length on the accuracy of these particular statements, and I will leave that task to them.
- Well, that seemed to be as good a target to divagate towards as any, so he set off for it.
Synonyms swerve, career, skew, swing, sheer, weave, wheel
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin divagat- ‘wandered about’, from the verb divagari, from di- ‘widely’ + vagari ‘wander’. |