0 past simple and past participle of meander
1 If a river, stream, or road meanders, it follows a route that is not straight or direct.
3 If a text, process, or activity meanders, it has no clear purpose or direction:
The film meanders along with no particular story line.
Some processes meandered throughout the nucleus, making sharp turns that were nearly opposite the direction as their precursor branch.
The walks meandered through supermarkets, stations, busy streets, churches, markets, and other locations.
During the interviews each participant meandered across many life events.
That river in the old days meandered in various directions before it got to the sea.
Negotiations seem to have meandered on in a most peculiar way.
We meandered not only on land but on water.
Since then, preparation for the scheme has meandered very slowly, only now to be confronted with a public inquiry.
Both of them meandered around the place, but neither had any strategic sweep or vision in the make-up of their ideas and their concept of this important issue.