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WANDER

Definition:

[verb] 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"
Synonyms: roll, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
[verb] be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
Synonyms: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray
[verb] go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"
[verb] 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"
Synonyms: weave, wind, thread, meander
[verb] 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"
Synonyms: digress, stray, divagate