excurse

Strongest matches

• abandon
• deviate
• stray
• veer

Strong matches

• cast
• desert
• differ
• digress
• disagree
• discard
• dissent
• forsake
• ramble
• reject
• repudiate
• swerve
• vary
• wander

Weak match

• turn aside

Strongest match

• meander

Strong matches

• aberrate
• depart
• divagate
• drift
• ramble
• roam
• swerve
• veer
• wander

Weak matches

• be diffuse
• beat about the bush
• circumlocute
• get off the point
• get off the subject
• get sidetracked
• go by way of
• go off on a tangent
• long way
• turn aside
• wander away

Strongest matches

• deviate
• radiate
• stray
• veer

Strong matches

• bend
• bifurcate
• branch
• depart
• digress
• divagate
• divaricate
• divide
• fork
• part
• ramble
• separate
• split
• spread
• swerve
• wander

Weak match

• branch off

Strongest matches

• amble
• digress
• meander
• roam
• saunter
• straggle
• stroll
• traipse
• zigzag

Strong matches

• 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

Weak matches

• bat around
• be all over the map
• branch off
• get sidetracked
• knock about
• knock around
• sprangle

Strongest matches

• babble
• digress
• meander
• wander

Strong matches

• amplify
• blather
• chatter
• depart
• descant
• divagate
• diverge
• drift
• drivel
• enlarge
• expatiate
• gossip
• maunder
• prose
• protract
• stray

Weak matches

• be diffuse
• beat around bush
• dwell on
• get off the subject
• go astray
• go off on tangent
• go on and on
• harp on
• lose the thread
• rant and rave
• rattle on
• talk nonsense
• talk off top of head
• talk randomly

Strongest matches

• depart
• diverge
• wander

Strong matches

• digress
• divagate
• ramble
• sin

Weak matches

• circumlocute
• do wrong
• get off the subject
• get off the track
• get sidetracked
• go off on a tangent