0 past simple and past participle of wander --
1 to walk around slowly in a relaxed way or without any clear purpose or direction: --
She wrote an article about infidelity called "Wives who wander".
He was cruelly described as a creepy old man with wandering hands.
If his hands start to wander, tell him firmly, "No, I'm not ready for this."
She was found several hours later, wandering the streets, lost.
We spent the morning wandering around the old part of the city.
2 to start talking about a different subject from the one you were originally discussing: --
Into their depressions sands and gravels had been deposited by glacial action to create swampy areas through which wandered brooks and creeks.
The accommodation had become a dowdy barracks stuck out along a back lane that wandered off from the edge of suburbia to the fields and agriculture.
When first put on to a rabbit, the larvae do not seem to feel at home and in every instance many of them have wandered away from this host.
The school also eradicated their memory of the hills in which they wandered about earlier and thereby ensured that they did not cherish the wild notions.
Co-resident supporters were more likely to report that the subject wandered or created a disturbance at night, but were less likely to report problems with repetitive speech.
Here they wandered ' aimlessly ', as they did when placed on agarose that contained no salt, changing directions frequently while making loop-like tracks.
He went around in circles, wandered about, looked in every corner.
As a consequence, he wandered around the nursing home from his room on the basement floor up to the ground floor lounge.
