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What does digress mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word digress? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
  2. (intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
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An unwelcome result of these lessons was that my English language abilities began to digress.
It is not uncommon for debates on controversial issues to digress into the realm of heckling and disrespectful exchanges.
But barely a freeflowing middle eight's allowed to digress from the tidy, right-on package of political broadsiding that's being delivered.
I digress slightly from the Koksilah River by Kelvin Creek, but Koksilah is also a fish-bearing stream.
I'll just digress a little bit, because it's interesting to note that when this monument was constructed, there was no such thing as plywood.
He can lecture at some length on the origins of the language, and it's only the mention of ventriloquism that prompts him to digress again.

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