0 past simple and past 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:
Each of these images reflects tension between positive and negative forces and recognizes the destructive potential of an entity that has digressed from the norm.
The last two articles deal with women who digressed from the norms of parochial religion.
Although physics proper was the focus of his book, the author often digressed into excursions into the history of the ideas.
I have allowed you a procedural motion in which you have also digressed and indulged in name-calling.
I regret that for a time we have digressed in this regard.
I have digressed during the last two or three minutes.
I have digressed slightly from our central concern about the effect on the deutschmark of the reunification process.
I apologise for having digressed in response to interventions.
