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wander

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wander in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
    "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
    cheat on  cheat  cuckold  betray  wander 
  2. 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"
    roll  wander  swan  stray  tramp  roam  cast  ramble  rove  range  drift  vagabond 
  3. 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"
    digress  stray  divagate  wander 
  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"
    weave  wind  thread  meander  wander 
  5. go via an indirect route or at no set pace
    "After dinner, we wandered into town"
    wander 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University