0 present participle of digress
1 to move away from the main subject you are writing or talking about and to write or talk about something else:
After much learned discussion of the gifts, digressing into astrology, the first part of the tale ends.
We are digressing from the main subject.
We are digressing from the subject of the debate.
I beg forgiveness myself for digressing just a little from the main report.
But that is digressing slightly from the main theme of my argument.
I would not dream of digressing into that or other areas.
He said in his article that the exercise was so important that it was worth digressing in order to outline it.
I may be digressing slightly but it is an important point.
