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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (5)

1. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
- Example: "The gypsies roamed the woods"
- Example: "roving vagabonds"
- Example: "the wandering Jew"
- Example: "The cattle roam across the prairie"
- Example: "the laborers drift from one town to the next"
- Example: "They rolled from town to town"
[syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]

2. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage;
- Example: "She cheats on her husband"
- Example: "Might her husband be wandering?"
[syn: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander]

3. go via an indirect route or at no set pace;
- Example: "After dinner, we wandered into town"

4. to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course;
- Example: "the river winds through the hills"
- Example: "the path meanders through the vineyards"
- Example: "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
[syn: weave, wind, thread, meander, wander]

5. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking;
- Example: "She always digresses when telling a story"
- Example: "her mind wanders"
- Example: "Don't digress when you give a lecture"
[syn: digress, stray, divagate, wander]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wander \Wan"der\, v. t.
   To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to
   stroll through. [R.] "[Elijah] wandered this barren waste."
   --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wander \Wan"der\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wandered; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Wandering.] [OE. wandren, wandrien, AS. wandrian; akin
   to G. wandern to wander; fr. AS. windan to turn. See Wind
   to turn.]
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   1. To ramble here and there without any certain course or
      with no definite object in view; to range about; to
      stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
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            They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
                                                  --Heb. xi. 37.
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            He wandereth abroad for bread.        --Job xv. 23.
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   2. To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go
      astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
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            When God caused me to wander from my father's house.
                                                  --Gen. xx. 13.
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            O, let me not wander from thy commandments. --Ps.
                                                  cxix. 10.
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   3. To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason;
      to rave; as, the mind wanders.
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   Syn: To roam; rove; range; stroll; gad; stray; straggly; err;
        swerve; deviate; depart.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wander
    v 1: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in
         search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the
         woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The
         cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from
         one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
         [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam,
         cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]
    2: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She
       cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
       [syn: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander]
    3: go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we
       wandered into town"
    4: to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular
       course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path
       meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders
       through the entire body" [syn: weave, wind, thread,
       meander, wander]
    5: lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject
       of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or
       speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her
       mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" [syn:
       digress, stray, divagate, wander]