(past & past part. wandered; pres. part. wandering)
1.
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. Synonyms:cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond."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"
2.
Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage. Synonyms:betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold."Might her husband be wandering?"
3.
Go via an indirect route or at no set pace.
4.
To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course. Synonyms:meander, thread, weave, wind."The path meanders through the vineyards" , "Sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
5.
Lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking. Synonyms:digress, divagate, stray."Her mind wanders" , "Don't digress when you give a lecture"
... this with respect to the impetuous desire I had from a youth to wander into the world, and how evident it now was that this principle was preserved in me for my punishment. How it came on, the manner, the circumstance, and the conclusion of it, it is easy to give you historically, and with its utmost variety of particulars. But ... — The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe Read full book for free!
... Deserted were the stalls of the bazaar for the parlours of the alehouses; unapplauded and unobserved, strained at the oar the stout rowers in the boat-race. Everybody ran to cover, except some seafaring men who cared nothing for weather, some inveterate loungers who would wander up and down in spite of the rain, and three unhappy German musicians, who had been caught on their travels, and pinned up tight against the outer wall of a house, in a sort of cage of canvas, boards, and evergreens, which hid every part of them but ... — Rambles Beyond Railways; - or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot • Wilkie Collins Read full book for free!
... hold on," advised Bert. "I don't mean to say that I know more than you about it, Harry, but it does seem to me that it won't do any good to wander off that way, especially if you're not sure it's the right path. We'll only get more lost than we ... — The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge • Laura Lee Hope Read full book for free!
... young men, who gave them excellent instruction in all that could be learned from masters, in his own department of politics neither taught them, nor gave them teachers; but they were allowed to wander at their own free will in a sort of hope that they would light upon virtue of their own accord. Or take another example: there was Cleinias the younger brother of our friend Alcibiades, of whom this very same Pericles ... — Protagoras • Plato Read full book for free!
... live and live for years. There we will sit by the fountain towards evening and in the deep moonlight. Down those paths we will wander together. On those benches we will rest and talk. Among those eastern hills we will ride through the soft twilight, and in the old house we will tell tales on winter nights, when the logs burn high, and the holly berries are red, and the old clock tolls out the dying ... — The Upper Berth • Francis Marion Crawford Read full book for free!
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