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What does digress mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word digress? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
  2. (intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
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Before listing our five concrete recommendations, I will digress for a minute to illustrate the kind of unified effort we believe is necessary.
An unwelcome result of these lessons was that my English language abilities began to digress.
I digress slightly from the Koksilah River by Kelvin Creek, but Koksilah is also a fish-bearing stream.
I'll just digress a little bit, because it's interesting to note that when this monument was constructed, there was no such thing as plywood.
Let me digress once more, for the sake of those dear readers who may be Hebraically challenged.
He talks about the disaster there and gives the impression that it is becoming increasingly worse as they digress.

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