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Synonyms for excurse
verb wander about; travel aimlessly- amble
- digress
- meander
- roam
- saunter
- straggle
- stroll
- traipse
- zigzag
- clamber
- climb
- cruise
- depart
- divagate
- diverge
- drift
- extend
- fork
- gad
- gallivant
- perambulate
- percolate
- peregrinate
- promenade
- range
- rove
- scramble
- snake
- sprawl
- spread
- spread-eagle
- straddle
- stray
- trail
- turn
- twist
- walk
- wind
- bat around
- be all over the map
- branch off
- excurse
- get sidetracked
- knock about
- knock around
- sprangle
Antonyms for excurse
- run
- join
- stay
- straighten
- be direct
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
digress
verb. stray, deviate
diverging
verb. go in different directions
ramble
verb. talk aimlessly, endlessly
- amplify
- babble
- be diffuse
- beat around bush
- blather
- chatter
- depart
- descant
- digress
- divagate
- diverge
- drift
- drivel
- dwell on
- enlarge
- excurse
- expatiate
- get off the subject
- go astray
- go off on tangent
- go on and on
- gossip
- harp on
- lose the thread
- maunder
- meander
- prose
- protract
- rant and rave
- rattle on
- stray
- talk nonsense
- talk off top of head
- talk randomly
- wander
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.