1. to wander or stray from a direct course or topic; to digress
Usage: present participle of divagate; formal or literary

Examples

• The professor was divagating from the main topic, discussing ancient history when the lecture was supposed to be about modern politics.
• Instead of divagating through the forest, we stayed on the marked trail.
• She had a habit of divagating during conversations, jumping from one subject to another without warning.
• The author criticized the novelist for divagating too much in the middle chapters, losing the reader's attention.
• He kept divagating from his prepared speech, adding personal anecdotes that weren't relevant.
• The river was divagating across the floodplain, creating new channels as it moved.